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Work Experience

Work Experience

★ 6,7 /10 (10 Votes)
1989 EN 11 min

Overview

Work Experience is a 1989 short film directed by James Hendrie. It follows Terence who is caught in a vicious circle. He cannot get a job because he has no experience, but he cannot gain experience without getting a job! The film won an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film.

Release date

16/11/1989

Votes

10

Popularity

0.5

Genres

Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

11 min

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CinemaSerf

CinemaSerf

2026-11-06

⭐ 7

"Terence" (Lenny Henry) turns up at a big department store keen to get himself a job - but he has no experience so nobody is that keen to take a risk on him. He is offered the chance to prove himself and so for the next few hours sets about making himself indispensable to the customers - all under the watchful eye of the floorwalker (John Normington). Of course, in his eagerness he also manages to attract the attention and suspicion of his colleagues (Neil Pearson and Kathy Bates) - but what chance he can get himself a job or, for that matter, even really end up wanting one here? There isn't a…

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