The Hudsucker Proxy 1994

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 111 min

genre: comedy-drama

theme: screwball comedy

director: Ethan Coen

Score: 7 / 10

The Hudsucker Proxy is a 1994 screwball comedy film co-written, produced, and directed by the Coen brothers. Sam Raimi co-wrote the script and served as second unit director. The film stars Tim Robbins as a naïve but ambitious business school graduate who is installed as president of a manufacturing company, Jennifer Jason Leigh as a newspaper reporter, and Paul Newman as a company director who hires the graduate as part of a stock scam.

Plot

In December 1958, Norville Barnes, a business college graduate from Muncie, Indiana, arrives in New York City, looking for a job. He struggles due to lack of experience and becomes a mailroom clerk at Hudsucker Industries, a large corporation. Soon thereafter, the company's founder and president, Waring Hudsucker, unexpectedly commits suicide during a business meeting by jumping out of a top-floor window.

Cast

More details

author	Ethan Coen Joel Coen Sam Raimi
contentLocation	New York City
director	Ethan Coen Joel Coen
editor	Thom Noble
genre	comedy-drama
keywords	agent alma mater angry mob beatnik board of directors build bylaw college graduate draw elevator operator frisbee id indiana jump jumper mailroom meet new year new year\'s eve personal secretary pitch proxy psychiatric hospital pulitzer prize sales presentation secret identity stock price suicide time war true identity
musicBy	Carter Burwell
producer	Ethan Coen
productionCompany	PolyGram Filmed Entertainment Silver Pictures Working Title Films
publisher	Rank Film Distributors Warner Bros.
recordedAt	North Carolina
theme	screwball comedy