Clockwatchers

Temps: They're the migrant workers of the desk set, so far down the ladder of corporate success that the bottom rung is up. Sisters Karen and Jill Sprecher, both of whom have done time in the temp salt mines, turn an unsparing eye on a quartet of temporary office workers, and their sharply delineated look at white-collar time-clock-punchers is simultaneously cruelly funny and gently melancholy. Shy, unambitious Iris (Toni Collette) is the new temp at Global credit. She falls in with a neurotic trio of more established temps, who float from desk to desk and menial task to menial task in a self-protective pack. Flamboyant Margaret (Parker Posey) knows instinctively j...