OFFICE KILLER
Orifice-filler is more like it

  A fun cast can't save this flaccid movie.  That, and cool opening credits are about all it's got going for it.

Carol Kane stars, playing the hopelessly introverted and awkward Dorine, who one day accidentally kills one of her co-workers and finds out that they'll let her be their friend as long as they're dead.  So she starts knocking everybody off and taking them home.  There's just not much you can do with a premise like that, and for 90 minutes this flogs on as if this writing team (four people) were on to something.

Oh, Jeannie Tripplehorn is appealing as one of the few seemingly good-hearted people in that office (despite her hatchet-wielding early on), and Molly Ringwald has fun as the office bitch.  (there should've been one lady who changed every conversation to how she paid less at Costco than you did for everything you ever bought; in my experience, every office has one of those too) Eric Bogosian also shows up in two flashbacks as Dorine's father, and he's always fun, and reportedly, Ben Affleck was in a couple of deleted scenes.  (not like it much matters in the final cut, but still, Ben-o-philes might want to know)

Just not a lot to say here, people.  Almost every gag falls flat, and you'd find more horror in a game of jacks.  Maybe they were going for a John Waters-ish thing here, I dunno.  For me, after the initial scenes of most people in the office being reduced to part time and being told they should be glad they weren't just shitcanned, everything just went to hell.

Directed by Cindy Sherman, who reportedly is a fine photographer.  Wowzas, you'd never know it from a movie this bad.

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