BARTLEBY

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• Release Year: 2001
• Genre: Comedy, Drama
• Plot: Updated to 1970s London, this faithful adaptation of Herman Melville's classic follows a young accounting clerk rebelling against his employer by responding to demands to do work by saying, "I prefer not to." This is carried on ad absurdum until the office is in chaos because the other employees must do Bartleby's work. His boss is unable to fire or help him and eventually has him placed in a mental hospital. Paul Scofield (A Man for All Seasons), John McEnery (The Duellists) and Thorley Walters (TV's "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy") star in this impeccably mounted study of employment, insanity, and the rigors of everyday life from one of literature's most acclaimed geniuses.
• Cast: David Paymer, Crispin Glover, Glenne Headly, Maury Chaykin, Joe Piscopo, Seymour Cassel, Carrie Snodgress, Dick Martin, Greta Danielle Newgren, Ken Murakami, Josh Kornbluth, Nick Scoggin, Stoney Burke, Terry Allen Jones, Stu Klitsner, Pete Marvel, Catherine DiNapoli, Louis Landman, Robert Ernst, James Carraway, Tim Wiggins, Howie Gordon, Olivia Parker, Susan Renati, Truman Chao, Karin Argoud, Victoria Smith, Jonathan Parker
• Director: Jonathan Parker
• Runtime: 1:23
• Media Format: Movie