Office Christmas Party (2016)

Newly divorced Josh Parker (Jason Bateman) works as Chief Technology Officer of Zenotek in Chicago. The Interim CEO Carol Vanstone (Jennifer Aniston) arrives to notify Josh and her brother / branch manager Clay Vanstone (T. J. Miller ) that unless they can land a rich new client, Walter Davis (Courtney B. Vance) she will have to make cuts at the company. In order to do this, Josh and Clay arrange to throw a party that quickly gets out of hand. 

OCP starts off well and then goes downhill faster than Santa in a sleigh, being pulled by nine reindeer. Crass, crude jokes cause eye rolling as they frequently miss. Some are completely ill advised, see Carol calling Santa to cancel a child's Christmas presents. 

A subplot sees single, geeky, IT director Nate (Karan Soni) hiring an escort (Abbey Lee) to impress his work colleagues. Worth watching but it should have been a lot better given the cast. It won't linger in the memory. 

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OTHER CAST INCLUDES: Olivia Munn, Jillian Bell, Vanessa Bayer, Rob Corddry, Abbey Lee, Sam Richardson, Randall Park, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Karan Soni, Kate McKinnon. DIRECTED BY: Will Speck, Josh Gordon. SCREENPLAY BY: Justin Malen, Laura Solon, Dan Mazer. STORY BY: Jon Lucas, Scott Moore, Timothy Dowling. RUNNING TIME: 105 minutes. CERTIFICATE: 15 / R. USA.