Extract (film)
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| Directed by | Mike Judge |
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| Written by | Mike Judge |
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| Music by | George S. Clinton |
| Cinematography | Tim Suhrstedt |
| Edited by | Julia Wong |
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Ternion Entertainment
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| Distributed by | Miramax Films |
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92 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $8 million |
| Box office | $10.8 million |
Extract is a 2009 American comedy film written and directed by Mike Judge, and starring an ensemble cast featuring Jason Bateman, Mila Kunis, Kristen Wiig, and Ben Affleck, with J. K. Simmons, Clifton Collins, Jr., and Dustin Milligan.
Said to be Judge's companion piece to his cult-classic Office Space, the film received mixed to positive reviews from critics and was a minor commercial success, grossing a little over $10 million worldwide from an $8 million budget.
Joel Reynolds is the owner and founder of Reynolds Extract, a flavoring-extracts company. His best friend Dean, a bartender and pothead, offers to ease his mind with Xanax and various other drugs, but the strait-laced Joel refuses. Although his business is successful, his marriage is now completely sexless, as Suzie, his wife, has an unwritten rule that once her sweatpants go on at 8pm, they don't come back off. It doesn't help that he is also often accosted by his annoying neighbor, Nathan, who heads him off and won't let him get by without finishing what he has to say, and often assumes the wrong things about what Joel responds with.
One day, a series of mishaps occurs at the extract factory, resulting in an employee (Step) losing a testicle. Cindy, a con artist and drifter, reads a news story about the accident. Hatching a get-rich-quick scheme, she gets a temporary job at the factory, flirting with Joel in order to manipulate him into giving her more information about Step. She also begins a series of petty thefts from her co-workers, who suspect or openly accuse each other of the thefts. Although Step initially decides not to sue the company, he changes his mind after a "chance meeting" with Cindy (that she sets up in order to meet and flirt with him). Under Cindy's influence, Step hires ambulance-chaser attorney, Joe Adler.
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