Clockwatchers

Director: Jill Sprecher

1997 / 96min / 35mm

Ostracized by their co-workers at Global Credit and suspected of a string of thefts, temp office staffers Toni Collette, Lisa Kudrow, Alanna Ubach, and Parker Posey band together in Sprecher’s wickedly funny feature debut.

“Despite all of its brash, camp, tawdry, and perverse influences, I feel that Maddie’s Secret at its heart is quiet, modest, and sad, and owes a lot to possibly my favorite movie of all time: Clockwatchers. Maddie transforms over the course of the movie, from paper doll to something more real, and this reminds me of Iris’s journey, similarly initiated into a group of rebellious women worn down by surveillance and condescension. Clockwatchers is unassuming and then totally brutal, split into tonally distinct halves. I always leave it feeling tougher and wiser.” —John Early

New 35mm print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive.

Distributor: Park Circus

Part of Thrust It! The Films That Inspired Maddie's Secret