Bartleby

United States

2001

83 Min

Color

1.85:1

English

Currently 3.0/5 Stars.
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SCR Jonathan Parker, Catherine DiNapoli, Herman Melville

CAST Crispin Glover, David Paymer, Glenne Headly, Maury Chaykin, Joe Piscopo, Seymour Cassel, Carrie Snodgress, Dick Martin, Greta Danielle Newgren, Ken Murakami

MUSIC Seth Asarnow, Jonathan Parker

SOUND Jennifer L. Ware

SXSW, Karlovy Vary (Forum of Independents)

Synopsis

Bartleby begins his new job in a public records company office near a freeway, with an air conditioner that vibrates and a window without a view. But his new boss has trouble coping with Bartleby’s professional aspirations: to have no ambition, no goal except to do no work at all and to stand still for hours, indeed days at a time, in the middle of the office. –Inbaseline