Runway magazine's offices are bright white, contemporary and cold, especially editor-in-chief Miranda Priestly's (Meryl Streep) space, which is also filled with glass and mirrors. Priestly's office is perfect for intimidating staff members like newbie Andy Sachs (Anne Hathaway), who works so hard to please her boss that she becomes the very superficial, materialistic, mean fashion victim she once despised. Rumor has it that the set for this film was so accurately based on the office of real-life Vogue editor Anna Wintour that she changed up the decor of the real thing after the film's release.

This story centers on a year in the life of three loyal company guys--played by Ben Affleck, Tommy Lee Jones and Chris Cooper--who are just trying to survive a round of corporate downsizing, and how their unemployment impacts their families. Except for one wood-paneled wall at GTX, where these three men work, these offices are as bleak and gray as the weather that prevails throughout the film.

With their rows upon rows of fluorescent lights covering the ceilings and cubicles lined up below, the offices of Stratton Oakmont are as drab and mediocre as the men at the scam investment company's helm, Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Donnie Azoff (Jonah Hill), but every kind of debauchery can be found there: drugs, drinking, sex acts, nude women, little people and animals being abused...it's all there in dull gray 1990s excess.

With a job traveling around the country firing people, Ryan Bingham's (George Clooney) office moves from one first-class flight seat to another. When he lands, he sits in mostly light-filled offices watching people cry. The rest of the time, he's literally got his head in the clouds. He doesn't care about the people whose jobs he's responsible for taking away, and he's actually proud of living out of a suitcase--at least until he finds himself threatened by the presence of a new hire (Anna Kendrick) and a potential love interest (Vera Farmiga). And then it's time for a few changes.

Three friends (played by Jason Bateman, Charlie Day and Jason Sudeikis) hilariously consider conspiring to murder their horrible respective bosses (played by Kevin Spacey, Jennifer Aniston and Colin Farrell). These office spaces are heavy on brown, but so are the bars where the three hypothetical murderers meet.

IN THE LOOP is a foul-mouthed comedy that draws on non-specific events to create a world that is terrifyingly familiar: The US President and UK Prime Minister fancy a war, but not everyone agrees that war is a good thing. US General Miller (James Gandolfini The Sopranos, The Taking Of Pelham 123) certainly doesn't think so and neither does the British Secretary of State for International Development, Simon Foster (Tom Hollander Pirates of the Caribbean, Pride and Prejudice). But when the mild-mannered minister inadvertently appears to back the war on prime-time television, he immediately attracts the attention of the PMs venomously aggressive communications chief Malcolm Tucker (reprised from The Thick of It by Peter Capaldi), who latches onto him like a hawk. Soon, the Brits are in Washington, where diplomatic relations collide with trans-Atlantic spin doctors and Fosters off-hand remark quickly spirals into an insurmountable mountain of conflict. [D-Man2010]

The Social Network's tagline--"You don't get to 500 million friends without making a few enemies"--encapsulates the plot of this film about the founding of Facebook. But its office settings say even more. Moving from the staid, oak-and-leather offices at Harvard, Mark Zuckerberg (played by Jesse Eisenberg) and company (including Justin Timberlake) wind up in California, living, working and partying--sometimes simultaneously--in a large rental house. From there, they move to an open-plan office with round blue "pods" reminiscent of both the 1960s "conversation pit" and the cubicles that have reigned supreme since the '80s.

When the feds decide to go after a multinational agro-business corporation suspected of price-fixing, they get a bit more than they bargained for from their star witness, vice president-turned-informant Mark Whitacre (Matt Damon). Based on a true story, the film follows the antics of well-meaning but naive Whitacre through boardrooms, cubicle-filled floors, lobby, men's rooms and up and down the elevator over and over again.

After getting laid off, two salesmen in their 40s (Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson) become interns at Google, reporting to managers who are in their 20s as they compete for jobs and engage in what they refer to as "mental Hunger Games." The duo's move from the old-fashioned wood-paneled offices of their former watch company boss (John Goodman) to Google's collegiate-style open campus is at least half the fun of this comedy.

Summer (Zooey Deschanel) doesn't believe in true love, but her co-worker Tom (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) does. After Tom falls for Summer in the elevator, the two spend 500 days as a couple, spending time together within and without their open-plan Los Angeles office in this offbeat romantic comedy.