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Created Feb 17, 2011 05:35PM PST • Edited Feb 17, 2011 05:35PM PST

1. Quality

2. Summary

   Very Good 3.5

   An enjoyable documentary focusing on the lives of eccentric employees who work at a parking lot in Virgina. Insightful ponderings on values, lifestyles, and existence are intertwined with a strong sense of bondng among the men who collect parking fees, and monitor the lot.

   In reality, the film is more about examining societal expectations and role each of us play in our everyday interactions. Are we to look down on those who may choose to monitor a parking lot, yet also happen to posses advanced degrees in philosophy or english? Do our day-to-day jobs really define who we are, or are we all capable of greatness in whatever way we define it?

   Those who work at the parking lot give the viewer plenty to ponder, along with providing a nice balance of comedic observations.

4. Acting

   Great 4.0

   As a documentary, you hope you are seeing these people as they really are. You want them to be as funny and outrageous in real life as they appear in the film, so I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt, and assume they are accurately portraying themselves and not just “playing to the camera”.

5. Male Stars Great 4.0

6. Female Stars Great 4.0

7. Female Costars Great 4.0

8. Male Costars Great 4.0

10. Film

    Very Good 3.5

    The director does a decent job of keeping the action moving, by interspersing a variety of individuals, stories, and vignettes.

11. Direction Very Good 3.5

12. Play Very Good 3.5

13. Music Very Good 3.5

14. Visuals Very Good 3.5
15. Content

16. Edge

    Tame 1.4

    Portrays some drunken students leaving bars, and demonstrates how obnoxious they can be to these attendants, including colorful language.

17. Sex Innocent 1.1

    Innocent flirting.

18. Violence Fierce 1.6

19. Rudeness Salty 1.6

    The rudeness is really an interesting part of the film and how the employees deal with jerks who try and scam them out of paying.

21. Reality

    Glib 1.8

22. Circumstantial Glib 1.8

23. Biological Glib 1.8

24. Physical Glib 1.8