Summaries

A 38-year old former chef starts all over again when he interviews for entry-level corporate jobs--and can't get one.

After losing his restaurant, chef CLAY MAGUIRE must start his career all over--at the bottom. Pushing forty with no "corporate skill-set", Clay enters the strange world of the Unemployable Interviewees of America. He soon meets others who share his plight--LIZ, who spent her youth traveling in the Peace Corp and now finds that experience digging wells in Bangladesh isn't exactly what corporate America is clamoring for; BOB a manufacturing engineer who lost his pension when the company went bust and now finds that 64 is too old to get hired as an administrative assistant and too young for a Wal-Mart greeter; and CHARLIE, who's job as a corporate hiring manager is so miserable that he only hires interviewees he hates because working at his company should be a form of punishment. Spurred along by the total lack of encouragement by his job counselor SAM, the self-serving "wisdom" of his homeless buddy NICK, and the most bizarre series of job interviews imaginable, Clay and his fellow job-seekers strive for dignity, success, or at least a job taking customer service calls from prison inmates for minimum wage. A hilarious, insightful look at job interviews, finding the courage to start all over, and life at the ENTRY LEVEL.—Anonymous

Details

Keywords
  • interview
  • job interview
  • corporation
  • jobs
  • entry level
Genres
  • Comedy
  • Drama
Release date May 12, 2007
Countries of origin United States
Official sites Official site
Language English
Filming locations Los Angeles, California, USA
Production companies Mark E. Lee Productions Cart Horse Films Small Pond Pictures

Box office

Budget $85000

Tech specs

Runtime 1h 25m
Color Color
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Synopsis

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