Before they broke through in “The Spectacular Now” and “Pitch Perfect,” respectively, Miles Teller and Anna Kendrick starred in this crass and painfully unfunny satirical comedy shot four years ago. It’s finally receiving a token theatrical release concurrent with being dumped into the video-on-demand sludge pile. Teller and Kendrick — and their strenuously wacky stoner buddies — are entitled Southern California millennials who graduate from college into the reality of the then-raging recession. Laid off from his first job, at Los Angeles Weekly, before he even starts, Teller goes to work grinding out video résumés at a high-end executive job-placement service. Much of Kendrick’s ditzy girlfriend role appears to have ended up on the cutting-room floor; she has barely more screen time than Oscar winners Alison Brie and Marcia Gay Harden, both cast as sexual predators. Only Bryan Cranston, as Teller’s downsized dad, emerges with his dignity fully intact from “Get a Job,” whose scatters direction is credited to Dylan Kidd (“Roger Dodger”).
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