

Jack’s son, Bobby (Colin Farrell) is a greedy, hooker-hiring cokehead who takes over the company and uses it as a piggy bank while violating all the anti-pollution laws he can. Kurt Buckman (Jason Sudeikis) is the favorite of his boss, Jack Pellitt (Donald Sutherland in a cameo), but Jack isn’t long for this world. Day plays Dale as an obsequious but decent guy diminished by circumstances beyond his control and threatened with losing his job and the women he loves. She cajoles, demands, and finally blackmails Dale to fulfill her needs, and Dale resists and avoids because not only is Julie’s aggressiveness unattractive but he loves his fiancée. (Jennifer Aniston), because, years ago, his midnight urination in a park when “no kids were around” got him listed as a sex offender.Īniston also relishes playing the sex-obsessed, dirty-talking Julie, who constantly reminds Dale that only she would give him a job. Dale Arbus (Charlie Day), a dental assistant, is forced to put up with the unwelcome and over-the-top advances of his boss, Dr. Spacey is perfect as Nick’s evil boss and seems to truly relish how Harken pretends to groom Nick for a big promotion only to take it away in the cruelest way.īateman is the ideal nose-to-the-grindstone guy willing to take Harken’s ill-treatment to get ahead and do better than his grandmother. Nick Hendricks (Jason Bateman) work for Dave Harken (Kevin Spacey), a sadistic megalomaniac who truly enjoys tricking and torturing his employees. Gordon has an incredibly fine cast and understood that the casting of the bosses, which are smaller roles, was key making the story work.

Then one night, a joke about killing their bosses starts to look like the best option for all of them. In director Seth Gordon’s comedy, three milquetoast, middle-class drones have bosses who can best be described as people who should never have spindles on their desks, and consequently, these workers spend many hours crying in their beer after work. Horrible Bosses: A Crude, Funny Dream FilmĮveryone has had one -that boss who seems bent on destroying the employees, the company, and maybe even the world- can live out fantasies of that evil boss getting a comeuppance by watching Horrible Bosses. HORRIBLE BOSS Kevin Spacey lays into employees Justin Bateman and Charley Day in the movie.
