New Movie ‘Get A Job’ Promises Stress, Anxiety, Light Entertainment

I am trying to process my feelings about Get A Job.

We could make a joke about how it’s the newest YA dystopia franchise: Compete with 1,000 people for a single available position! Even if you think you’ve won, you can’t relax—at any minute, you could get let go and sent right back into the Job Hunger Games.

We could also note, as plenty of other publications have done, that maybe nobody wants to watch this. As Vulture put it: “Get a paper bag to hyperventilate into, and get ready to laugh!”

We could also put a bit of a critical lens on Get A Job, reflecting on the difference between “broke” vs. “poor” and understanding that, while these two white, middle-class, college-educated adults whose parents wear suits to brunch are no doubt having trouble finding jobs—I mean, that’s what the entire movie is about—they’re probably going to be okay. (That peppy music they play over the trailer? It’s the “they’re going to be okay” music.)

What do you think about Get A Job? Are you going to watch it? Are you going to make me watch it and then report back with my review?

Or should the Billfold Movie Club just stick to Money Monster?

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