Horrible Bosses (2011) on Netflix
Nick Hendricks, Kurt Buckman and Dale Arbus have bosses who make their working lives miserable. Over drinks they agree to get rid of Dave Harken, Bobby Pellitt and Dr. Julia Harris.
- Netflix3.6/5
- IMDb6.9/10491,749 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes69%
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Plot summary
Friends Nick Hendricks, Kurt Buckman and Dale Arbus are average guys who want to work hard to get ahead in their respective jobs, but they each have the same professional problem in achieving this goal: they have a horrible boss and a job difficult to escape without starting from scratch. At the financial firm where he works, Nick's sadistic boss, Dave Harken, has long implied to Nick that he is in line for a senior vice-president position which was the farthest thing from Dave's mind. Kurt, who works for a family owned chemical company, used to have the best boss in the world in Jack Pellitt until he died, which meant that the reigns of the company were passed to his insensitive cocaine-induced son, Bobby Pellitt. And dental hygienist Dale's boss, Dr. Julia Harris, is sexually harassing him, which is made worse as Julia vows to tells Dale's fiancée that they did sleep together if he doesn't. He knows he can't get another job due to being on the sexual predator list for an innocent incident. After the three initially joke about wanting to kill their respective bosses, Dale is the first to state that he really wants to do it, to which the other two agree. As they are just three average guys, they have no idea how to go about doing it or even hiring a hit-man.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Horrible Bosses (2011)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Jamie Foxx's character was first named "Cocksucker Jones" but became "Motherfucker Jones" at Foxx's request; producer Jay Stern said Foxx felt the original name "was over the line".
- Markowitz based Dr. Julia Harris, the dentist who harasses Charlie Day's character, on a former boss of his, saying she was "very sexually aggressive with everybody"; he wrote the role intending it for Jennifer Aniston.
- Dave Harken, the boss played by Kevin Spacey, was not drawn from one person: Gordon said the character was an amalgamation of several real bosses, to avoid being sued.
- For the Pellitt Chemical plant, the production team found a "perfect landscape of pipes and containers" in Santa Fe Springs, around an unoccupied water cleaning and storage facility; the warehouse needed overhauls including cutting windows into concrete walls and creating new doorways.
- Horrible Bosses's $28.3 million opening weekend was the highest-grossing opening ever for a dark/black comedy, overtaking the 2004 film The Stepford Wives and its $21.4 million.
