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Genres:
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Comedy
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Director:
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Mike Judge
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Actors:
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Kristen Wiig,
Dustin Milligan,
Javier Gutiérrez,
Jason Bateman,
Mila Kunis,
Ben Affleck,
J.K. Simmons,
Clifton Collins Jr.,
David Koechner,
Beth Grant,
T.J. Miller,
Gene Simmons,
Matt Schulze
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Duration:
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91 min.
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Rating:
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(7.4/10)137.5
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Plot Summary:
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Joel, the owner of an extract manufacturing spy, constantly finds himself in precarious situations that steadily worsen by the insignificant. Senior, his anon-to-be floor administrator acquires a serious injury in a machine malfunctioning accident. This afterward endangers the in fine being of his company. Right hand, his personal life doesn't fair much safer when he takes the counsel of his bartending intimate, Dean. Dean during a analgesic-induced brainstorming hearing suggests how to test his wife's faithfulness. Finally, compounding these catastrophes is new staff member Cindy, who also h... appens to be a scam artist intent on milking the company on the side of all its advantage. Straight away occasionally, Joel must attempt to piece his flock and his alliance wager together, all while worrying to figure out what he's unquestionably after in sprightliness.
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Extract
Betsy SharkeyFor most of his career, writer-director Mike Judge has focused on ordinary Joes, starting with the young versions in Beavis and Butt-Head, progressing on to propane salesman Hank Hill and his six-pack buddies on King of the Hill, bored white-collar cubical workers in Office Space, and the barely average G.I. of Idiocracy who becomes a genius courtesy of a 500-year nap that has him waking to a future ruled by dumb and dumber.
He's at it again in Extract, a laid-back comedy of very modest means and an equally modest payoff that is concerned with a decent guy named Joel Reynold (Jason Bateman), who owns a small factory that specializes in making food extracts, those amber bottles of almond or vanilla or any number of other flavors used in the cakes and ...
Extract
Claudia PuigIn Extract, writer-director Mike Judge- creator of TV's animated series Beavis and Butt-head and King of the Hill as well as the 1999 movie Office Space- has fashioned his most accessible and mainstream adult comedy. This amusing ensemble comedy is getting a bigger push from its studio than did Judge's last effort, 2006's Idiocracy. While that film was a more biting social satire, it also was sloppier and less focused than Extract, which stars Jason Bateman as Joel, a frustrated and put-upon Everyman who owns a flavor extract factory. Ben Affleck plays Dean, his long-haired best buddy, a bartender who is as offbeat as Bateman is buttoned-down. They make an odd couple, but the film's best moments belong to them, particularly their weird, substance-...
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