The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)

THE HUDSUCKER PROXY (1994)

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    Norville Barnes (Tim Robbins) has arrived in New York fresh off the bus from Muncie, Indiana. A graduate of the 1958 class of the Muncie College of Administration, Norville is ready to start at the bottom and work his way up to the top of the corporate world.
    Waring Hudsucker (Charles Durning) on the other hand, is heading in the opposite direction. At the very moment Norville lands a position in the mail room of the global super-company Hudsucker Industries. Waring the founder of the company, leaps from the fourty-fourth floor boardroom window and lands a position on the pavement below.
    The board of directors is in a panic. Hudsucker's death means his ownership interest in the company will soon be offered to the public. There is one man, however, who remains surprisingly calm Sidney J. Mussburger (Paul Newman). Hudsucker's right-hand man, has a plan. He'll install a complete imbecile as president of the company and devalue the stock so the board can acquire a controlling interest for themselves. But where can he find such a guileless patsy who'll accept the job with no questions asked?
    Enter Norville Barnes.

RATING: R

STARRING:

Tim Robbins: Norville Barnes
Jennifer Jason Leigh: Amy Archer
Paul Newman: Sidney J. Mussburger

YEAR OF RELEASE: 1994

SCREENWRITER: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen, Sam Raimi

DIRECTOR: Joel Coen

RUNNING TIME: 111 minutes

STUDIO: Warner Brothers

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Both the Hula-Hoop and the Frisbee, which were Norville Barnes' big ideas in this film, were in fact both manufactured by the Wham-O-Company.
The Coen Brothers along with long time friend Sam Raimi wrote this film and the 1984 flop Crimewave over a single summer. However after the failure of Crimewave it took another 10 years before the project was green-lit. In the meantime references to the film were popping up in some of the other Coen Brothers' films. In Crimewave itself much of the film takes place in Hudsucker Penitentiary. Also in 1989's Raising Arizona, factory workers can be seen wearing uniforms that read: "Hudsucker Industries".
The Coen's told Jennifer Jason Leigh to base her character on Roland Russell's performance in the film His Girl Friday.
John Goodman makes a small cameo during the newsreel scene, however he is credited as Karl Mundt. Karl Mundt was the alias of John Goodman's character in the film Barton Fink, an earlier Coen Brothers film.

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