“Out of Office” was scripted and directed by an “Office” writer and on-air regular, Paul Lieberstein, who was the put-upon HR nebbish on the show.

Put Jason Alexander and Cheri Oteri in small roles, give Ken Jeong, Leslie Jones and Jay Pharaoh supporting parts and make the perky “New Ellie Kemper/Kimmy Schmidt” your lead. The cast? Same deal, mix the familiar with the new. “How do I ‘mute?'” “How do I ‘Leave Meeting?'”

Maybe update “The Office” for the Zoom Meeting era, with ditzy “types” over-sharing, accidentally or on purpose, the most intimate details of their messy lives.

It’d be derivative - familiar and “new” at the same time. She ends up choosing a mail drug drop meant to be for the personal trainer next door.Close your eyes and you can pretty much imagine the full “package” of a movie that would make its premiere on Comedy Central. Things get worse as Michelle thinks of original ways of making money such as winning the lotto. Each lives in a separate reality but authors a story about one of the others.Įmma, working at a sex doll factory in Toronto, fantasizes about having larger breasts and undergoes augmentation surgery, only to regret her choice.Įdward has a big Spanish penis that Emma makes small because of her frustration at not having the money to have her implants removed. The film is a multi-dimensional interface between comic book artist Emma Boyles (drawing Deacon's reality), novelist Michelle (writing Boyles' reality), and film director Edward Deacon (filming Michelle's reality).

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