Peter Gibbons (Ron Livingston) is having the worst day of his life. There isn’t anything special about today. It’s just the day after yesterday, which was the worst day of his life until today came along.

That’s the way that it is for him. Each day is worse than the day that proceeded it, so anytime that you see him, you can be sure that you’re seeing him on the worse day of his life. That’s life in a cubicle with Peter. But things are about to change for the better.

Peter’s girlfriend Ann, who everyone agrees is seeing someone else, has decided that they should see an occupational hypnotherapist. And while he can’t help Peter believe that he’s out fishing all day, he thinks that he can help. The only problem is that as he puts Peter under and helps him to relax, he has a heart attack and dies. So Peter is in a sort of perpetual relaxed state, and with the therapist dead, there doesn’t seem to be any way that he’s going to come out of it.

He skips work through the weekend, and come Monday, he doesn’t go in either. Instead he goes to meet Joanna (Jennifer Aniston) and ask her out. She doesn’t believe what he’s saying, that he just isn’t going to go back to work. But for now, it’ll do, so they start dating and having a grand time.

When the efficiency consultants Bob and Bob come in, they are impressed by Peter’s honesty, and he gets a promotion and a raise – but his friends Michael Bolton and Samir get canned. In turn, they decided to plant a worm in the system that will steal those fractions of cents that typically get rounded off, and deposit them into an account that they set up. The only problem is that the math doesn’t work out right, and within a couple of days, the account has three hundred thousand dollars in it. It should have taken years to get that much money in it.

Not knowing what to do, but wanting to make sure that Michael and Samir don’t get in trouble, Peter decides he’ll take the blame, so he writes a letter explaining what happened and slides it under the door of his boss. He has second thoughts, but can’t get it back. Luckily for him, a disgruntled employee burns the place down before it can be found – and the same employee finds the letter, with the funds inside, and takes off to a sunny island, so everyone is in the clear.

A short review like this can’t do the film justice. You really need to see it to experience the whole thing for yourself.

Rated R for language and brief sexuality.

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