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The Assistant

  • 2019
  • 15
  • 1h 27m
IMDb RATING
6.3/10
28K
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Julia Garner in The Assistant (2019)
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A searing look at a day in the life of an assistant to a powerful executive. As Jane follows her daily routine, she grows increasingly aware of the insidious abuse that threatens every aspec... Read allA searing look at a day in the life of an assistant to a powerful executive. As Jane follows her daily routine, she grows increasingly aware of the insidious abuse that threatens every aspect of her position.A searing look at a day in the life of an assistant to a powerful executive. As Jane follows her daily routine, she grows increasingly aware of the insidious abuse that threatens every aspect of her position.

  • Director
    • Kitty Green
  • Writer
    • Kitty Green
  • Stars
    • Julia Garner
    • Owen Holland
    • Jon Orsini
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    6.3/10
    28K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Kitty Green
    • Writer
      • Kitty Green
    • Stars
      • Julia Garner
      • Owen Holland
      • Jon Orsini
    • 537User reviews
    • 182Critic reviews
    • 79Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 4 wins & 25 nominations total

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    Julia Garner
    Julia Garner
    • Jane
    Owen Holland
    • Driver
    Jon Orsini
    • Male Assistant 2
    Rory Kulz
    Rory Kulz
    • Executive 3
    Migs Govea
    Migs Govea
    • Executive 1
    Daoud Heidami
    Daoud Heidami
    • Executive 2
    Ben Maters
    • Executive 4
    Noah Robbins
    Noah Robbins
    • Male Assistant 1
    Tony Torn
    • Boss
    Dagmara Dominczyk
    Dagmara Dominczyk
    • Ellen
    Alexander Chaplin
    Alexander Chaplin
    • Max
    Bregje Heinen
    Bregje Heinen
    • Tatiana
    Devon Caraway
    Devon Caraway
    • Non-Fiction Executive 1
    Genny Lis Padilla
    • Non-Fiction Executive 2
    Clara Wong
    Clara Wong
    • Tess
    James C.B. Gray
    James C.B. Gray
    • Postal Worker
    • (as James Gray)
    Sophie Knapp
    Sophie Knapp
    • Child 1
    Hunter Hojnowski
    • Child 2
    • Director
      • Kitty Green
    • Writer
      • Kitty Green
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    TxMike

    Character study, a young assistant in the New York entertainment empire.

    I can see why some viewers don't like this movie, there is no action, essentially no background music until the very end, and the focus is squarely on this young assistant who has been in the job for 5 weeks after graduating from a good college. Her ambition is to work her way into being a Producer.

    Julia Garner, a New Yorker herself, is age-appropriate, was probably about 24 during filming, she is simply Jane. She calls home periodically, her parents tell her to get enough sleep, she is very diligent and professional, she gets to the office before daybreak and is often the last to leave. She gets sandwiches, makes copies, arranges flights and hotels, her work keeps the offices running. There is no frivolity.

    Her awakening to the reality of things is when she goes in to make an anonymous concern, that sexual shenanigans might be going on even with the big boss, an unqualified girl from Idaho is hired and put up at a hotel, and basically finds out her job is to mind her own business if she wanted to keep her job.

    It is easy to think this was inspired by Harvey Weinstein and his office, and maybe it was, but enough has come to light over the past few years to realize this is closer to the norm than it is to the exception. The story is less about the big boss taking advantage of pretty young girls, it is more about the culture and the widespread acceptance within the office that this is the norm. But one worker told her "Don't worry, you're not his type."

    The story covers one long day but it gets its point across. Garner is superb in her role as Jane but we get no clue what might eventually happen for her. My wife and I watched this at home on DVD from our public library. When it ended she asked "It's over?"
    7kosmasp

    Mundane and detailed

    Let's just say, that whoever did this, has experience when it comes to the life of an assistant. There is nothing fancy here and the ticks and tocks are subtle and not in your face. The life of an Assistant is not glamouros (in realityt that is and in the way it is depicted here) - this could easily be a documentary then.

    So your patience is being tested in a way, one would say. The movie is interesting to some then and annoying to boring to others. Be aware to which group you belong and act accordingly (watch or don't that is)
    8matthewssilverhammer

    Hit me like a horror film...

    ...only without the comfort of exaggeration or fantasy. Green employs exquisite camera composition to make the drab office environments a thing of sterile beauty, while Garner controls every uncomfortable on-screen moment with brilliantly still misery. Dehumanizing phone calls, oppressive mundanity, hopeless sexism. It's a painstakingly meticulous view into the soul-crushing work of the assistant to the powerful, especially when the roles are this cliched: man over woman.
    10erzbetwilson

    My life

    This was my life for 5 years in my 20s. Dreadful and boring; being treated like complete crap by anyone in positions of authority save a few people, being ignored, asked to smile more, dress more or less sexy, catcalled, and asked to do things that were morally wrong for myself. So I relate to this movie. Some may find it boring but if you've worked in a toxic environment whether your male or female you'll see similarities that aren't always picked up on. Brilliantly done.
    8MOscarbradley

    Deeply unsettling and unlike any other movie you will see on sexual abuse.

    Following on from the Harvey Weinstien scandal and other instances of sexual abuse and harrassment by the rich and powerful I'm sure movies like "The Assistant" are going to become more common place but I doubt if many of them will be this strange, this unsettling or indeed this good. Although fiction, "The Assistant" looks and feels like it could be a documentary and Kitty Green, whose first feature this is, does indeed come from a documentary background.

    The assistant of the title, (a beautifully subdued Julia Garner), is a young woman employed in the New York office of a media mogul, not just as a kind of secretary, but as someone to clean up, (literally), the mess (literally), that her boss leaves behind and to take whatever verbal abuse he dishes out. She is safe, it would seem, from sexual harrasment because, as she's told, 'she's not his type'. The boss himself is never seen on screen.

    This is a genuinely frightening film that goes beyond what has come to be known as the #MeToo Movement. It paints a horrifying picture of what powerful people can do to subordinates given the chance, (I know because I too worked with such people but I, at least, had the balls to stand up to them...and not get fired). What distinguishes Green's film is that she never over-dramatizes, (if anything, she holds back almost to the point of boredom), uses actors who are not well-known to us, (a magnificently obsequious Matthew Macfadyen is the best known person on screen), and films it, not as a clammy thriller, but as a fly-on-the-wall slice of life. There is none of the triumphalism of "Bombshell" on display here, just the chilly feeling that an unseen monster is lurking out of camera shot and destroying the lives of everyone around him.

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    • Trivia
      The drugs Jane puts in the storage box are Alprostadil injections for erectile dysfunction.
    • Goofs
      It has been noted as a "revealing mistake" that Jane has a driver in the morning but not in the evening. There are two plausible plot lines for this: 1. It is critical for Jane to be at work earlier than anyone to prepare the office for the day, so having her driven to the office is worth the expense, but not so important at the end of the work day; and 2. her boss was headed to L.A. that night and was using the driver for airport transport. Both plot lines continue the theme of Jane having value only when it is convenient or worthwhile to the overall office.
    • Quotes

      Boss: [Over the phone] I'm not gonna yell at you. Am I yelling? No... Because you're not someone even worthy of that. Because you didn't even have the fucking courtesy to talk to me about whatever the fuck fantasy you decided to spew all over me... So, let me ask, do you want to keep this job?

      Jane: Yeah.

      Boss: Okay... Then send me a fucking apology.

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    • Release date
      • January 31, 2020 (United Kingdom)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official sites
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    • Languages
      • English
      • Mandarin
      • Spanish
    • Also known as
      • La asistente
    • Production companies
      • 3311 Productions
      • Bellmer Pictures
      • Cinereach
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    Box office

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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $1,100,313
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $79,141
      • Feb 2, 2020
    • Gross worldwide
      • $1,338,881
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 27 minutes
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    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.00 : 1

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