Coffee Break (2023)

★★★★ · back to the powder room... · uncleslappy38 · 2007-12-19

i would have to say that this film is even more sexist than "the trouble with women." i'm wondering if anyone knows any information about the actor playing joe in this film. he sounds like he could be the voice of huckleberry hound.

★★★★ · Ahhh, lighten up. · longfade · 2010-07-12

Two funny things - two minutes into this, I got up and went to get a cup of coffee, it sounded so good; and these Prelinger Archive films have taken up more of my hours at work than a years' worth of coffee breaks. But seriously, I agree with a previous post that this is an interesting look into the much less relaxed attitude they had back then about certain things.

★★★★ · Ayn Rand would be proud! · JackCalvert · 2013-08-28

Clearly intended for management eyes, this unintentionally hilarious film offers a rare, candid glimpse into the corporate mind's contempt for the evils of "human nature"--they actually use the phrase as a perjorative--in a paranoiac, Ayn Rand world where the majority of all moochers (sorry, employees) are lazy and can't be trusted. Lost man-hours notwithstanding, the soreheaded boss's chief complaint about coffee breaks is more prosaic: "...they start yakkin' and slippin' the knife into each other like a bunch of old women!" Ironically, films like this did more to fuel the anti-capitalist…