"Truly entertaining. " John Petrakis, Chicago Tribune

"A miracle of Midwestern ingenuity and economy, Smith's utterly remarkable first feature... [is] as hilarious as it is depressing." Amy Taubin, The Village Voice

"A stellar and too-little-seen film about, quite simply, what we do for work." Elizabeth Pincus, Harper's Bazaar

"American Job is a true delight. Funny, emotionally accurate, and expertly framed and edited, the film upends the TV-endorsed notion that the workplace offers us alienated Americans our surrogate families." Scott Macauley, Filmmaker Magazine

"Smith's biting look at the working world is scathingly funny and surprisingly sad." Paul Birchall, Los Angeles Reader

"Chris Smith's deadpan American Job twists the daily grind of minimum wage labor into a wryly humorous portrait of dead-end angst..." Holly Willis, Los Angeles Independent Film Festival

"There is little here that won't ring hilariously and depressingly true. This, finally, is the America I know." Arne Johnson, San Francisco Bay Gaurdian

"Not only one of the best films of decade, one of the best films ever made." John Rush, The Other Paper

"A hilarious and heartfelt film..." Jim Supanick, Film Comment

American Job is a narrative film about Randy Scott, a youth caught in the dismal confusion of living and working in the world of minimum wage.

American Job follows main character Randy Scott through a number of low wage jobs: factory worker, fast food dishwasher, third shift inventory specialist, motel room custodian and telemarketer. We live with Randy through these jobs and witness the pain, absurdity and sheer boredom of minimum wage work.

Centered around experiences filmmaker Chris Smith, his co-writers, actors and collaborators have endured and still endure, the stories here range from depressing and horrific to darkly comic and engaging. Universal in their depiction of the minimum wage experience, these episodes point out the problems in a society where the workforce is increasingly unfulfilled and "the big score" is seen as the only hope.

American Job was made entirely in the Midwest for $14,000. The crew, actors, and locations all donated their time and energy to make this portrait of what it's really like to work in low end America.