AMERICAN JOB

30th Anniversary
On DCP for the first time

Starring Randy Russell, Written by Doug Ruschaupt, Randy Russell & Chris Smith

Official Selection 1996 Sundance Film Festival

“In appearance, Randy Russell looks something like a cross-between R.Crumb and a Harvey Pekar character in an American Splendor comic, which only augments the film’s wry humor.
Director Chris Smith manages to situate the film within a mixture of tones — it is simultaneously deadpan, stark, weird, realistic, provocative, and funny.
And watching American Job sure beats the hell out of working.”
Marjorie Baumgarten, The Austin Chronicle

“Mr Smith's deadpan fiction feature is packed with the hard-won, unfakeable detail and dialogue of experience - hilarious, bleak, absurd, numbing - from the front lines of minimum-wage monotony. Easily one of the decade's best indie debuts, "American Job" sticks by it's lanky, slack-jawed protagonist (Mr Russell) through a series of shuffling stints at a plastic-mold factory, a fast-food chicken joint, a telemarketing farm, and so on. Faithful to Mr Russell's point of view with long take scenes, and fleshed out with a lived-in cast of co-workers and bosses, "American Job" rivals comedies such as Mike Judge's Office Space as a workplace classic.”
NY Sun, Nicolas Raplod