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  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release Date: 09/04/2009
  • Running Time: 90 mins
  • Director: Mike Judge
  • Cast: Jason Bateman, Ben Affleck, Clifton Collins, Jr, Mila Kunis, Kristen Wiig, Beth Grant
  • Producer: John Altschuler, Michael Rotenberg
  • Writer: Mike Judge
  • Distributor: Miramax
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  1. The Final Destination, 27.4 mil, 27.4 mil
  2. Inglourious Basterds, 19.3 mil, 73.0 mil
  3. Halloween II (2009), 16.3 mil, 16.3 mil
  4. District 9, 10.3 mil, 90.4 mil
  5. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, 7.7 mil, 132.2 mil
  6. Julie & Julia, 7.0 mil, 70.6 mil
  7. The Time Traveler's Wife, 6.5 mil, 47.9 mil
  8. Shorts, 4.5 mil, 13.2 mil
  9. Taking Woodstock, 3.5 mil, 3.5 mil
  10. G-Force, 2.8 mil, 111.8 mil
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Extract

Mike Judge's latest is a sequel of sorts to Office Space, the story of what computer programmer Peter Gibbons might have become 10 years after he decided it was no longer enough to clean up someone else�s mess. Joel Reynolds (Jason Bateman) is Peter rewritten as self-made and flourishing, the owner of a modest food-extract manufacturing company he created out of a childhood aspiration to make his mom's cookies taste better. Yet Joel, like Peter, is consumed by dissatisfaction; the accoutrements of achievement provide little reward. (Bateman, still suffering from a case of Arrested Development, has come to perfectly embody the self-neutered American male.) Joel's home life is equally soul-crushing: His wife Suzie (Kristen Wiig) seems far more interested in watching Dancing With the Stars than in sleeping with her husband. His neighbor Nathan (former SNL'er David Koechner) is an intrusive, pushy sort, and his best friend Dean (Ben Affleck, somewhere beneath that beard and long hair) is a bartender who believes Xanax is intended to cure all physiological ailments. The jokes in Extract play almost like afterthoughts, the last-second add-ons of a former animator who, till now, has always treated his flesh-and-blood characters a bit like cartoon caricatures and vice versa. Which isn't meant as criticism�far from it�but rather as a warning; real life kinda sucks, and this time around, there�s isn't an obese hypnotherapist in sight who can convince the hero that today isn't the worst day of his life. — Robert Wilonsky

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