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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.
Mar 11, 1994 · The Hudsucker Proxy: Directed by Joel Coen, Ethan Coen. With Tim Robbins, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Paul Newman, Charles Durning. A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.
Greedy executive Sidney J. Mussburger (Paul Newman) hopes to take control of the company he works for by purchasing a majority share -- but he must first devalue the stock. So he convinces the ...
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Mar 25, 1994 · Tim Robbins stars, as a mailroom clerk who finds himself thrust into the presidency of the giant Hudsucker Corporation. Paul Newman is the gray eminence behind the scenes, who engineers Robbins' ascendancy because he believes the kid is hopelessly incompetent, and will drive the stock price down - just what Newman desires.
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.
Feb 1, 2024 · The big difference is The Hudsucker Proxy, unlike The Ladykillers, shouldn’t be considered a bridge to better offerings; it should be counted among them. But it isn’t.
Dec 16, 2017 · A critical and box-office bomb when it came out in 1994, the big business comedy-fantasy "The Hudsucker Proxy" looks better and smarter by the year. The filmmaking team of Joel and Ethan Coen made the film on the heels of " Blood Simple ," " Raising Arizona ," " Miller's Crossing " and " Barton Fink " (you might call it the third entry in their ...
