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Horrible Bosses (2011)

★ 6.6 · 6,775 ratings on TMDB

Ever wish your boss was dead?

Horrible Bosses poster★ 6.6

For Nick, Kurt and Dale, the only thing that would make the daily grind more tolerable would be to grind their intolerable bosses into dust. Quitting is not an option, so, with the benefit of a few-too-many drinks and some dubious advice from a hustling ex-con, the three friends devise a convoluted and seemingly foolproof plan to rid themselves of their respective employers... permanently.

The emergence reading

Horrible Bosses keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing power, revenge, workplace, law, friendship.

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.