Lester, a struggling corporate consulting office worker, accidentally kills his boss, seizing the chance to rise the corporate ladder, but his arrogant ambition jeopardizes his freedom and relationships.
This script follows Lester, a meek and disillusioned office worker, who, after a promotion-sparking accident, embraces a new life of corporate ambition. Manipulated by his senior partner, Harris, Lester orchestrates a series of "accidents" to eliminate rivals and climb the corporate ladder, all while his pregnant wife Susan and a quietly observant co-worker named Penelope begin to uncover his dark secrets. As Lester becomes more arrogant and powerful, he loses sight of his original motivations, leading to a tense, psychological game of cat and mouse that culminates in his public betrayal by Harris and a frantic, humiliating chase through the city streets. The story ends with Lester, stripped of his ego and power, facing a lonely and pathetic downfall, a prisoner of the very corporate system he tried to master.
When a mob boss uses dangerous methods to fix horse races on Derby Day, a corny joke telling handicapper, executing his own safe cheating scheme, battles to turn some asinine cheats against the mob enforcer before the horses he loves are hurt.
A strait-laced loan officer convinced his wife is cheating enrolls in a men's sex class to save his marriage—only to discover the real problem was never in the bedroom.
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