Hudsucker Proxy, The
Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
IMDB Rating: 7.40 out of 10 (14623 votes)
When Waring Hudsucker, head of hugely successful Hudsucker Industries, commits suicide, his board of directors, led by Sidney Mussberger, comes up with a brilliant plan to make a lot of money: appoint a moron to run the company. When the stock falls low enough, Sidney and friends can buy it up for pennies on the dollar, take over the company, and restore its fortunes. They choose idealistic Norville Barnes, who just started in the mail room. Norville is whacky enough to drive any company to ruin, but soon, tough reporter Amy Archer smells a rat and begins an undercover investigation of Hudsucker Industries.
Movie tags: 1950s - angel - baldness - beatnik - big-business - big-clock - bus - business - career-woman - cigar - corruption - dance - dream-sequence - drunkenness - elevator-operator - exploitation - fairy-tale - fall-from-height - false-teeth - fire - frisbee - gala - golf - halo - hula-hoop - imbecile - innocence - invention - journalism - jump-from-window - key-hole - letter - mailroom - mass-production - massage - mechanic - mental-hospital - mob - narration - new-year’s-eve - newspaper - opening-narration - psychiatrist - pulitzer-prize - punch - remake - satire - screwball - secretary - snow - spiral-staircase - stocks - straw - suicide - suicide-attempt - surreal - time - time-freeze - typewriter - ukelele - Robbins Tim - Norville Barnes - Leigh Jennifer Jason - Amy Archer - Newman Paul - Sidney J. Mussburger - Durning Charles - Waring Hudsucker - Mahoney John - Chief Editor Manhattan Argus - True-Frost Jim - Buzz the Elevator Operator - Cobbs Bill - Moses the Clock Man - Campbell Bruce - Smitty, Argus Reporter - Bugin Harry - Aloysius, Mussburger’s Spy - Seitz John - Bennie the Cabbie - Grifasi Joe - Lou the Cabbie - Brocksmith Roy - Board Member - Wylie John - Board Member - Hobson I.M. - Board Member - Allen Gary - Board Member - dvd movies - divx movies - pda movies - Joel Coen - Ethan Coen -
Taglines: 1: A Comedy of Invention.
2: At Hudsucker industries there’s a fast way to the top…and an even faster way down!
3: They took him for a fall guy… but he threw them for a hoop.
Actors: Robbins Tim (Norville Barnes), Leigh Jennifer Jason (Amy Archer), Newman Paul (Sidney J. Mussburger), Durning Charles (Waring Hudsucker), Mahoney John (Chief Editor Manhattan Argus), True-Frost Jim (Buzz the Elevator Operator), Cobbs Bill (Moses the Clock Man), Campbell Bruce (Smitty, Argus Reporter), Bugin Harry (Aloysius, Mussburger’s Spy), Seitz John (Bennie the Cabbie), Grifasi Joe (Lou the Cabbie), Brocksmith Roy (Board Member), Wylie John (Board Member), Hobson I.M. (Board Member), Allen Gary (Board Member),
