While hypnotizing Peter, Swanson dies of a heart attack before snapping Peter out of his relaxed state. Peter's girlfriend Anne persuades him to attend Dr. The staff suffers under top-heavy, callous management, especially from Initech's vice president Bill Lumbergh, whom Peter hates and avoids confronting. Another co-worker in the office is Milton Waddams, a meek collator who is mostly ignored by the rest of the office. He is friends with co-workers Samir Nagheenanajar and Michael Bolton (who loathes being associated with the famous singer of the same name). Peter Gibbons is a frustrated and unmotivated programmer who works at Initech. Judge's 2009 film Extract is also set in an office and was intended as a companion piece to Office Space. Swingline introduced a red stapler to its product line after the Milton character used one painted that color in the film. A scene where the three main characters systematically destroy a dysfunctional printer has been widely parodied. Several aspects of the film have become Internet memes. It was a box office disappointment, making $12.2 million on a $10 million production budget however, after repeated airings on Comedy Central, it sold well on home video, and has become a cult film. The film's sympathetic depiction of ordinary information technology workers garnered a cult following within that field, but it also addresses themes familiar to white-collar employees and the workforce in general. It is based on Judge's Milton cartoon series and was his first foray into live-action filmmaking and his second full-length motion picture release, following Beavis and Butt-Head Do America. Office Space was filmed in Dallas and Austin, Texas. It stars Ron Livingston, Jennifer Aniston, Gary Cole, Stephen Root, David Herman, Ajay Naidu, and Diedrich Bader. It satirizes the worklife of a typical 1990s software company, focusing on a handful of individuals weary of their jobs. Office Space is a 1999 American comedy film written and directed by Mike Judge.
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