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 Hudsuck... er Industries.Read moreLess
Under rated gem.
Of all the Coens films this one is often mysteriously overlooked as nothing more than a whimsical curiosity.
Both a tribute to Howard Hawks's comedies and the feel goodness of Capra, this is a charming illustration of the strange logic of the Coensian universe.
Featuring great comic performances from all the leads, wonderful set design and great dialogue this deserves to be up there with the Coen Bros best.
'You know? For kids!'
Intolerable Cruelty, though, there's a film more deserving of being overlooked.
Misses the mark
This flim tries hard to make likable characters and have quirky scissorhandesque scenes, but just doesn't quite get there.
The characters are not endearing enough or particularly interesting and there are some scenes which try to be humourously over the top arty, where I just found myself fast-forwarding out of irritation (such as the lift operator dragging himself across the carpet after being fired, and the angel desdending as time is stood still).
Part of the problem is Tim Robbins I think, I just don't feel he makes contact with an audience. Jennifer Jason leigh adopts an irritating and unconvincing accent also.
It just does not reach any depth of feeling.
Hudsucker Proxy, The
More Capra-Coen than Capra-corn, this is a throwback to the good old days of the screwball comedy. When Joel and Ethan Coen pay tribute to a period or a style of film-making, however, they never slavishly re-create, instead always managing to impart some of their own unique vision. In The Hudsucker Proxy they marry the Art Deco designs of the 1930s with the go-get-'em attitudes of the 1950s to fashion a parable that might just have something to say about America in the 1990s. And, if they miss the odd trick in saluting the good old days of Frank Capra and that harder-bitten director of screwball comedy Howard Hawks, it has to be said that a Coen misfire easily outguns th...
Hudsucker Proxy, The
New Year's Eve, 1958, Norville Barnes (Robbins) climbs on to a window-ledge of the Hudsucker Industries skyscraper in...
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