The Hudsucker Proxy
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.
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author | Ethan Coen Joel Coen Sam Raimi |
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director | Coen brothers |
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 new york city 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. |
theme | screwball comedy |