Narcisisstic, un-empathetic, but stumbles into genuine entertainment at times despite that.
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10/14/07
Fired! (2007)
44 %
Reviews Counted: 27 Fresh: 12 Rotten:15 Average Rating: 5.2/10
Consensus:
This well-intentioned documentary is too broad in its subjects to have any sort of cohesion.
Runtime: 72 mins
Synopsis: If you spend any time at all in the workplace you’re going to get laid off, down-sized, let go, out-sourced, axed, terminated, canned, cancelled, dismissed…FIRED! When actress Annabelle Gurwitch was fired from a play by Woody Allen she wondered how she would cope with being fired by a... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Tim Allen, David Cross, Tate Donovan, Jeff Garlin, Sarah Silverman
Reviews
luckily for Gurwitch you can't get fired from a direct-to-DVD release.
06/14/07
Brings to mind Michael Moore, except not nearly as serious, rigorous, angry or focused.
06/05/07
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05/12/07
It's a shame Allen fired her from that play. After all, then she might not have had the time to make this documentary.
05/04/07
As for her anticorporate muckraking, I can say only that I have watched Michael Moore and I have met Michael Moore, and Gurwitch is no Michael Moore.
03/23/07
Serious portions, in which Gurwitch appears far too often to be mugging and cracking wise, are intercut with dumb sketches.
03/15/07
Top Critic
A sharper documentarian might've tried harder to bridge the gap between the problems of the legitimate American work force and the struggles of relatively well-off celebrities, but Gurwitch, while charming, isn't exactly brimming with insight.
02/10/07
The video is heavy on actors and other showbiz types, and the self-centered Gurwitch doesn't distinguish between a factory worker laid off after decades on the job and an actor getting rejected during tryouts.
02/09/07
At the very least, it's gainful, worthwhile employment for its likable star.
02/08/07
Ignore the earnest bits here and zero in on what Fired! does best -- treating trauma with a light-bright touch.
02/07/07
Fired! won't offer much by way of revelation to anyone who has entered (and involuntarily exited) the workforce over the past 20 years, but the account it provides is both comforting for its all-inclusiveness and troubling for its implications.
02/07/07
The documentary Fired! contains slivers of shtick that play more as diverting filler than prime comedy material.
02/05/07
Top Critic
I was truly shocked when I looked at my watch and what seemed to be an hour and a half was only forty minutes.
02/03/07
Just when the film seems to be getting bogged down in 'before I made it big' anecdotes, Gurwitch wisely broadens her focus, interviewing ordinary victims of corporate 'right-sizing.'
02/02/07
The film is funny for the first 10 minutes -- maybe 15 -- but it soon grows tiresome and repetitive.
02/02/07
The filmrambles a bit in places and its structure is veryloose and unformed leaving Fired! assomething of a misfire.
02/02/07
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