{4.5\/5} “You punch in at 8:30 every morning, except you punch in at 7:30 following a business holiday, unless it’s a Monday, then you punch in at 8 o’clock. Punch in late and they dock you. Incoming articles get a voucher, outgoing articles provide a voucher. Move any article without a voucher and they dock you. Letter size a green voucher, oversize a yellow voucher, parcel size a maroon voucher. Wrong colour voucher and they dock you.”<\/p>\n
It’s 1958 and Norville has just graduated from business school. He has trouble finding a job because they all require experience. He finally finds a job working in the mail room at Hudsucker Industries. But Mr. Hudsucker has just thrown himself out of a 45th floor window and the board is looking for a proxy, someone they can control, to be the new president. They select Norville.<\/p>\n
The board wants their stock price to go down so they can buy it all up. Norville has his own plan, but will it be successful?<\/p>\n
The Hudsucker Proxy<\/strong> was released in 1994.<\/p>\n The world of the movie is a bit zany at times.<\/p>\n The scene in the mail room (a sample is the quotation above) reminds me of Brazil<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Tim Robbins is suitably naive and Paul Newman is suitably dastardly.<\/p>\n I liked it a lot, although it’s perhaps not quite as great as Fargo<\/strong> and The Big Lebowski<\/strong>.<\/p>\n There’s some familiar music, and the fun original music is by Carter Burwell (True Grit<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n Tim Robbins (Mystic River<\/strong><\/a>) plays Norville. Paul Newman (The Sting<\/strong>) plays an executive at Hudsucker, Charles Durning (The Sting<\/strong>) plays Mr. Hudsucker, and Bill Cobbs (Get Low<\/strong><\/a>) plays the mysterious Moses. Jennifer Jason Leigh (eXistenZ<\/strong>) plays a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, Bruce Campbell (the TV show Burn Notice<\/strong><\/a>) plays a colleague, and John Mahoney\u00a0(the TV show Frasier<\/strong>) plays their boss.<\/p>\n The movie was directed by Joel and Ethan Coen (True Grit<\/strong>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" {4.5\/5} “You punch in at 8:30 every morning, except you punch in at 7:30 following a business holiday, unless it’s a Monday, then you punch in at 8 o’clock. Punch in late and they dock you. Incoming articles get a voucher, outgoing articles provide a voucher. Move any article without a voucher and they dock […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[16,6,5],"class_list":["post-4255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-comedy","tag-movie","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4255"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4263,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4255\/revisions\/4263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}