David Brent: Life on the Road

David Brent, the former manager of the Wernham Hogg paper company who once let a documentary crew follow him through his working day, is in his fifties and selling cleaning products for a living. Convinced that a career in music is still within reach, he takes unpaid leave and sets out on a short tour of the country with his band, Foregone Conclusion, while a camera crew films the whole attempt. The film is a mockumentary that again turns on the gap between how Brent sees himself and how the people around him see him.

Ricky Gervais wrote, directed and produced the film and returns to the role he played in the British version of The Office. Ben Bailey Smith plays Dom Johnson, a rapper who becomes Brent's reluctant musical partner, with Rebecca Gethings, Jo Hartley, Andrew Brooke and Tom Bennett among the supporting cast. The film followed Gervais's Cemetery Junction in his directing work. It runs 96 minutes.

David Brent: Life on the Road was released in 2016. On IMDb it holds a rating of 6.3 from around 23,000 votes, on TMDB 6.1 from roughly 410 votes, and a critics' rating of 6.1 from 77 reviews, so critics and audiences land in much the same place.