Bartleby has always been one of my heroes, and to see weirdo extraordinare Crispin Glover impersonate him in an updated verion should be a real treat. Here's the synopsis:

"Ah, Bartleby! Ah, humanity!" So concluded Herman Melville's great fable. Jonathan Parker dares to adapt Melville's struggle of individual will, setting it in modern dress, and he succeeds stunningly in this hilarious yet deeply touching debut feature. The synopsis, according to Parker, is brief: "He was hired, but preferred not to work. He was fired, but preferred not to leave." And so unfolds the narrative, as Bartleby begins his new job in a public records company. His boss cannot cope with an employee who has no ambition, no goal except to do no work at all and to stand still for hours, indeed days at a time, in the middle of the office.

Heading the superb cast are Crispin Glover as Bartleby matched by David Paymer as his employer, and Glenne Headly, Joe Piscopo, and Maury Chaykin as his bemused colleagues.

USA, 2000. 82 min.