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Canada · 2000
Rated R · 1h 24m
Director Gary Burns
Starring Fab Filippo, Don McKellar, Marya Delver, Gordon Currie
Genre Comedy, Drama
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Four young office workers have a bet going to see who can last the longest without going outside. In the maze that is the downtown core of a large city, glass skywalks connect apartment buildings, office towers and shopping malls. Its day 28 of the bet and over the lunch hour, as the office prepares for the company founder's retirement party, things start to seriously unravel.
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Christian Science Monitor by David Sterritt
It's a smart and creative comedy that skewers cheaply dehumanizing architecture and self-absorbed yuppie mentalities in a series of skillfully assembled scenes. See it in a theater that's waydowntown, and city life may never look the same.
New York Daily News by Jack Mathews
Maybe you have to have experienced one of these anti-weather urban cocoons to appreciate the concept of the film, and the prickly people who populate it.
The film will resonate with today's alienated workers, whose every brain cell and nerve ending hates the soul-crushing jobs they're told they should be grateful to have.
Village Voice by Jessica Winter
With wit and empathy to spare, waydowntown acknowledges the silent screams of workaday inertia but stops short of indulging its characters' striving solipsism.
Occasionally resembling an episode of Seinfeld taken to the big screen, waydowntown shares that show's ability to mine mundane details for humor, and its Tomorrowland-gone-awry setting provides plenty of raw material.
Third outing for prairie auteur Gary Burns is his most ambitious, and most uneven, effort yet.
Quirky and sometimes hilarious Canadian comedy.
New York Magazine (Vulture) by Peter Rainer
Has a poignant undertone: We may feel we already know in our bones just how suffocating this culture is; but the people who made this movie seem to be discovering each fresh horror for the first time. It's like watching a virgin sacrifice.
Writer/director Gary Burns offers a suffocating experience which is too boring to be accepted as a satire, too lame to be accepted as a farce, and too infantile to be accepted as a drama.
The New York Times by Stephen Holden
A smart, sardonic satire.
She's back...And she's bringing a few of her friends.