American Job is a 1996 independent film directed by Chris Smith.
Shot in a satirical pseudo-documentary style, the film follows Randy, a young man living in a Midwestern US town, as he tries one mundane job after another, including monitoring a machine at a plastics factory, working as a clean-up person at a fast-food restaurant, cleaning motels, and becoming a telephone solicitor.
The film follows Randy through a number of low-paying, menial jobs including fast food dishwasher, custodian, telemarketer, and factory worker.
[4] American Job was filmed in 1995 in the midwestern United States for $14,000 (USD).
[6] Nicolas Rapold of The New York Sun later called it "Easily one of the decade's best indie debuts" and likened it to Mike Judge's 1999 cult workplace comedy Office Space.