Summary
A frantic tableau of middle-class precarity, Entertaining the Boss navigates the razor-thin margin between professional advancement and social humiliation. Our protagonist, a man whose aspirations far outstrip his fiscal reality, orchestrates a dinner intended to solidify his standing with his superior. However, the domestic sphere betrays him; the severance of gas and water serves as a cruel metaphor for his evaporating status. The film transforms a simple dwelling into a labyrinth of improvised deceptions, where the absence of basic utilities mandates a performance of absurd ingenuity. As the boss arrives, the home becomes a stage for a desperate masquerade, where every shadow hides a dry tap and every smile masks the panic of an unlit stove. It is a quintessential study of the 'shabby-genteel' struggle, rendered through the lens of early slapstick where the stakes are nothing less than total social erasure.
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A young man invites his boss to his house for dinner, but when he gets home he discovers that his gas and water have been cut off. He has to improvise in order to hide his situation from his boss. Complications ensue.
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