Throughout my time in the corporate world, there has always been an unspoken, yet very real, pressure to take part in team outings and functions. For the most part, these events go fine, albeit a bit awkwardly, thanks to my own social anxiety. Still, that relentless push to join in and be "team-first" can often be rife with underlying dysfunction.
That exact corporate dysfunction is masterfully explored in the 1994 film "White Mile." Starring a surprisingly sinister Alan Alda, alongside familiar faces like Robert Loggia, Bruce Altman, and Peter Gallagher, the movie digs deep into the dangers of professional peer pressure and what happens when winning becomes the only thing that matters.
