Office Christmas Party is an American comedy film directed by filmmakers Josh Gordon and Will Speck, who previously have been nominated for an academy award and have many hits to their names. The film is written by Justin Malen and Laura Solon, based on a story by Jon Lucas and Scott Moore.
The story moves around big business names that have their own rules to play the game. At the point when the CEO tries to close her hard-celebrating sibling’s branch, he and his main specialized officer must rally their collaborators and host an epic office Christmas party with an end goal to inspire a potential customer and close a deal that will spare their employments.
Zenotek’s Chicago branch manager Clay Vanstone (T.J Miller) is threatened by his sister, the CEO, Carol Vanstone (Jennifer Aniston), that she will cut bonuses and downsize the staff since Clay had failed to meet the quarterly quota. Clay is advised by her colleague Tracey Hughes (Olivia Munn) to partner with the business tycoon Walter Davis (Courtney B. Vance) which would give them a chance a to save their jobs, if a deal is closed. Walter is happy with everything but the fact that Zenotek cares more about its money rather than its employees. Zenotek recently had closed down one of its several branches which did not go unnoticed by Walter and was certainly an area of concern for him. In order to win over Walter’s grant, Clay plans onto throw a Christmas party for his employees to show and Convince Walter that the company is in a good position and cares for its employees. This is where Carol proposes a job offer to Josh, claiming that his brother will fail to win over Walter’s accord. With immense help of Mary (Kate McKinnon), the HR HoD, Clay throws an excessively outrageous costly party to make sure that he pleases Walter and wins over a business deal. The DJ duty is given to Joel (Sam Richardson) who fails miserably to turn up the audience. The fact that Tracey invited Chicago Bulls player Jimmy Butler as a friend did not even because the party to reach the level of awesomeness it was supposed to. But all of this changes when a series of fortunate or unfortunate events take place and shift the momentum to the host’s side. What happens next is quite interesting and what decides the fate of the employees and their jobs.
Office Christmas Party takes its inspiration from Project X, a classic hit which displays a tremendous amount of wild teenagers partying their behinds off. Similarly, this is exactly what this film portrays but on a shorter scale. This movie might strike with numerous familiar faces because it allegedly has many famous celebrities in it. Despite being about a Christmas party, this movie might not be classified under the Christmas label as it rarely links itself to Christmas but it surely is a good one nonetheless and does not deserves to be missed out on.