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MPAA Rating: R Content Advisory: Violence, Adult Situations Movie Release: 1997 DVD Release: 06/04/2002 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV Audio Tracks: English Subtitles: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 23 mins Studio: Dimension Members Wishing: 4 Genres: Comedy, Thriller, Crime Thriller, Psychological Thriller, Workplace Comedy

Photographer Cindy Sherman, who often uses motifs from exploitation films in her work, pays witty tribute to slasher films in this satiric horror-comedy. Dorine Douglas (Carol Kane) has spent 16 years at the bottom of the totem pole as a copy editor for Constant Consumer magazine when, due to budget cuts, she's downsized into a contract employee and forced to work out of her home. Dorine isn't at all happy about this, and when she's called back into the office to help obnoxious writer Gary (David Thornton) fix a glitch in his computer, she's not at all upset when he's accidentally electrocuted. Dorine brings Gary's corpse home to join her in front of the TV. When pushy publisher Virginia (Barbara Sukowa) orders Dorine and overly ambitious Kim (Molly Ringwald) to salvage Gary's story from his notes, Dorine snaps, and soon Gary has some company in Dorine's increasingly crowded home office. Office Killer also stars Jeanne Tripplehorn and Michael Imperioli as more of Dorine's co-workers. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Carol Kane - Dorine Douglas
Molly Ringwald - Kim Poole
Jeanne Tripplehorn - Norah Reed
Barbara Sukowa - Virginia
Michael Imperioli - Daniel

Cindy Sherman's darkly humorous thriller Office Killer comes to DVD with a widescreen anamorphic transfer preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.85:1. The English soundtrack is rendered in Dolby Digital Surround. There are no subtitles, but the soundtrack is closed-captioned. There are no supplemental materials of any consequence, making it difficult to recommend this disc to anyone other than a genre enthusiast. The picture and sound quality are high on this release, but there is little here for the average DVD consumer. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide