# Suggest a Completely Inappropriate Movie for a Work Party
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**Created:** [May 12, 2006, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-completely-inappropriate-movie-for-a-work-party/356453 "2006-05-12T01:14:30Z")
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### Author:  [@porcupine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/porcupine)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2006, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-completely-inappropriate-movie-for-a-work-party/356453/1 "2006-05-12T01:14:30Z")
We’re having an afternoon work party at the manager’s manager’s house one afternoon next week - reason being the department reorged, so it’s the last hurrah for the current group. Pizza on the menu, “Office Space” on the big screen.
So what’s the most inappropriate (non-porn) movie for this type of gathering? My nomination: “Blue Velvet.” Runner-up: “Crash” (the David Cronenberg movie of 10 years back, not the Best Picture Winner from last year).
Note that I like weird movies, so suggestions here will likely go on my Netflix list if I haven’t already seen them.
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### Author:  [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2006, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-completely-inappropriate-movie-for-a-work-party/356453/2 "2006-05-12T01:19:18Z")
I nominate “Secretary” with James Spader.
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### Author:  [@Airman\_Doors\_USAF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Airman_Doors_USAF)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2006, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-completely-inappropriate-movie-for-a-work-party/356453/3 "2006-05-12T01:20:54Z")
Angel Heart
American Psycho
Beavis and Butthead Do America
Showgirls (for that matter, anything Verhoeven)
Freddy Got Fingered
The Hitcher
It really all depends on which way you want to go. Oversexed, ultra-violent, socially retarded, my suggestions run the gamut. Take your pick.
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### Author:  [@Kilvert\_s\_Pagan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kilvert_s_Pagan)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2006, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-completely-inappropriate-movie-for-a-work-party/356453/4 "2006-05-12T01:25:24Z")
Cheech and Chong: Up in Smoke
Mulholland Drive
Allegro non Troppo (the weird nominee)
Teletubbies
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### Author:  [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2006, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-completely-inappropriate-movie-for-a-work-party/356453/5 "2006-05-12T01:39:41Z")
_[I Can Make You Love Me](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107178/)_, based on Richard Farley’s stalking of co-worker Laura Black, culminating in the 1988 office shooting spree in which he killed seven and wounded three, including Black.
Brooke Shields and Richard (John-Boy) Thomas! It can’t miss!
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### Author:  [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2006, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-completely-inappropriate-movie-for-a-work-party/356453/6 "2006-05-12T01:59:00Z")
Blue Velvet
Completely inappropriate for just about anything.
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### Author:  [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2006, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-completely-inappropriate-movie-for-a-work-party/356453/7 "2006-05-12T02:35:20Z")
Middle of the day and then everyone goes back to work?
_The Last Temptation of Christ_
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### Author:  [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2006, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-completely-inappropriate-movie-for-a-work-party/356453/8 "2006-05-12T02:41:00Z")
You can’t ever go wrong with Fight Club.
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### Author:  [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2006, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-completely-inappropriate-movie-for-a-work-party/356453/9 "2006-05-12T02:46:35Z")
_[Orgazmo](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0124819/)_- The Porn Film With No Porn!
It’s done by Matt Stone and Trey Parker- of _South Park_ fame- and is hilariously funny, and also horribly inappropriate for a work environment.
Other suggestions include _The Big Lebowski_ (A Rory\* Award Nominee if there ever was one), _Monty Python & The Holy Grail_ (or _Life Of Brian_- they’re both excellent), _Death To Smoochy_ (especially if your co-workers have kids!), and _Fight Club_ (which might give people ideas… :D)
\*The Rory Award is a fictional award for “The Most Gratuitous Use Of The Word “Fuck” In A Serious Screenplay”, in case you hadn’t read _Life, The Universe, And Everything_…
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### Author:  [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2006, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-completely-inappropriate-movie-for-a-work-party/356453/10 "2006-05-12T02:47:04Z")
[Chuck & Buck](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0200530/), I beg of you! You’ll have the most awkward time EVER. It’s especially good since it starts off rather innocently, and people will be all like ‘oh, the guy from School of Rock’ and ‘Hey, one of the directors of American Pie.’ Then comes the creepy sexuality…
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### Author:  [@porcupine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/porcupine)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2006, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-completely-inappropriate-movie-for-a-work-party/356453/11 "2006-05-12T02:54:52Z")
Excellent suggestions so far - keep 'em coming.
Other ideas:
“Kinsey”
“A Clockwork Orange”
“Trainspotting”
> [@PunditLisa](#):
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> Blue Velvet
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> Completely inappropriate for just about anything.
Note only at the top of my list (literally ;)), but I just added this to my DVD collection last weekend.
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### Author:  [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2006, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-completely-inappropriate-movie-for-a-work-party/356453/12 "2006-05-12T03:06:36Z")
_The Passion of the Christ_
_Meet the Feebles_
_Birth of a Nation_
_Piglet’s Big Movie_
something foreign. very foreign
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### Author:  [@DfrntBreign](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DfrntBreign)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2006, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-completely-inappropriate-movie-for-a-work-party/356453/13 "2006-05-12T03:19:01Z")
[Clerks](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109445/) Or even better/worse [Vulgar](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120467/)
[Quest For Fire](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082484/) might be appropriatly inappropriate. (And you don’t have to hear it to keep up.)
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### Author:  [@Danalan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danalan)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2006, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-completely-inappropriate-movie-for-a-work-party/356453/14 "2006-05-12T03:20:54Z")
[Boogie Nights.](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/boogie_nights/) Now there’s a work environment! That last scene should really leave everyone in the right frame of mind to go back to work. 😉
> [@](#):
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> In fact, if it weren’t for the porn, drugs, and violence, this would be an ideal movie to take the kids to.
> –Jeffrey M. Anderson
> –Combustible Celluloid
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### Author:  [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2006, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-completely-inappropriate-movie-for-a-work-party/356453/15 "2006-05-12T03:29:55Z")
Going with “you don’t have to be crazy to work here but it helps”: [The Dream Team](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097235/).
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### Author:  [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2006, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-completely-inappropriate-movie-for-a-work-party/356453/16 "2006-05-12T03:37:00Z")
Who wouldn’t love a Monkees movie? [Head](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063049/)
For something with more political overtones, try [The President’s Analyst](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062153/)
More drugs? [Valley of the Dolls](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062430/)
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### Author:  [@Eva\_Luna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eva_Luna)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2006, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-completely-inappropriate-movie-for-a-work-party/356453/17 "2006-05-12T03:39:45Z")
Every year Northwestern University has a [B Movie Fest,](http://www.b-fest.com/) which all my friends attended faithfully every year in high school. (I mean come on, how can you miss 24 straight hours of some of the absolute worst films ever made?) Anything normally shown at the B-Fest would be a fine choice, but the choicest would have to be the 1942 classic U.S. military hygiene film, [U.S.S. VD: Ship of Shame.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0244869/)
(However, another fine choice might be Groucho Marx’s last film, [Skidoo,](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063612/) in which he plays God, with Grace Jones as his love slave. It’s rather less graphically inappropiate, but a great deal more random. A fine choice for lovers of truly bizarre and random cinema.)
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### Author:  [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2006, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-completely-inappropriate-movie-for-a-work-party/356453/18 "2006-05-12T03:45:56Z")
Bring “Final Fantasy VII: Advent Childen”
… Nobody will no what the hell is going on.
Bring “9 Songs”… a little British film.
… But practice your “I had no idea!” face before hand. The illusion of sincerity is of the utmost importance.
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### Author:  [@cbawlmer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cbawlmer)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2006, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-completely-inappropriate-movie-for-a-work-party/356453/19 "2006-05-12T03:48:45Z")
_8mm_ with Nicolas Cage. Can’t go wrong with a snuff film theme.
Or you could try _Requiem for a Dream_. That’s inappropriate for ANY party.
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### Author:  [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2006, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/suggest-a-completely-inappropriate-movie-for-a-work-party/356453/20 "2006-05-12T04:56:37Z")
[_Eraserhead_](http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0074486/) is probably completely inappropriate for _any_ gathering.
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