Extract 2009

     Joel Adler is the owner of an extract manufacturing plant.  He constantly finds himself in precarious situations that steadily worsen by the minute.  First, his soon-to-be floor manager has a serious injury in a machine malfunction accident that endangers the well being of his company.  

     Joel's personal life isn't much better when he takes the advice of his bar tending friend Dean.  This was during a drug-induced brainstorming session on how to test his wife's faithfulness?  Finally, compounding these catastrophes is new employee Cindy.  She turns out to be a scam artist intent on milking the company for all its worth!!  Now, Joel must try to piece his company and his marriage back together while trying to figure out what he really wants in life?  3* ( I liked this movie)
 
92 min, Comedy directed and written by Mike Judge with Jason Bateman, Kristen Wiig, Ben Affleck, J.K. Simmons, Clifton Collins Jr., Dustin Milligan, David Koechner, Beth Grant, R.J. Miller, Javier Gutierrez, Lidia Porto.

Note:  Imdb 6.1* out of 10* with 45,653 reviews, Rotten Tomatoes 62% with 189 critic reviews 38%, Rotten Tomatoes 100,000+ audience scores, Deep Focus 3* out of 4* Brian Eggert, Roger Ebert 2 1/2*, Metacritic 61 out of 100 with 33 critic reviews, 6.1 out of 10 with 99 user scores, reelviews.net 2 1/2* James Berardinelli, Letterboxed 2.8* out of 5*, Common Sense Media age 16+ 2* age 15+.

Special Note:  The pawn shop where Cindy sells the stolen guitar was the same store used for the infamous pawn shop scenes in Pulp Fiction (1994).  Joel Adler is a nod to attorney Jim Adler and his “have you been injured?! television commercials.  After Office Space (1999), Mike Judge wanted to make a follow-up companion piece to that movie.  It would be about his experiences owning a small independent company and it would be sympathetic to the boss.  Joel Adler is also referred to on Beavis and Butt-Head (1993) and this was also created by Mike Judge.  The handbag that was stolen was made by the Barcelona company  TOUS. Their logo is a teddy bear, which appears on the handbag.

Mistakes:  Boom microphones are clearly visible in several early house interior scenes.  Dominos sells Coke products, not Pepsi clearly visible in several early house interior scenes.  When Joel comes home from being punched at the bong session, he has a monster of a black eye!!  When he leaves the house the next morning, the shiner has completely vanished?  It reappears briefly, but in milder form, by the time he arrives at work?