Extract [DVD]

Joel Reynolds seems to lead a perfect life. After all, owning your own business and the lucrative patent of a well-known brand of culinary condiments should make you the happiest man in the world. However, although he could not be more successful professionally, his love life is far from complete, as his wife Suzie has lost all romantic interest in her husband. Sexually frustrated, Joel cries his sorrows on the shoulder of his best friend, Dean , who advises him to test his marriage by hiring a gigolo who tried to seduce his wife, with the sole objective that she takes the bait and Joel can have free rein to try to attract the enigmatic Cindy, one of his new employees. In EXTRACT the writer and director Mike Judge returns to the fertile territory of the world of work that gave him such good results in his cult comedy "Junk Job" (Office Space , 1999), but in this case instead of focusing on the via crucis of the poor and defenseless guy, he sets his sights on the boss, on the big businessman. And to achieve something as surprising as the viewer being able to feel empathy for such a character, there is nothing better than giving him the face and affability of Jason Bateman ("The Changeling") and surrounding him with an impressive cast of secondary hooligans led by Mila Kunis ("Swan black"), Kristen Wiig ("My Best Friend's Wedding") and Ben Affleck ("Argo"), who will turn both the work and love life of the poor manager upside down.