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POLYGRAM FILMED ENTERTAINMENT PRESNETS IN ASSOCIATION WITH WARNER BROS. A SILVER PICTURES PRODUCTION |
IN ASSOCIATION WITH WORKING TITLE FILMS TIM ROBBINS JENNIFER JASON LEIGH |
AND PAUL NEWMAN AS SIDNEY J. MUSSBURGER "THE HUDSUCKER PROXY" MUSIC BY CARTER BURWELL FILM EDITOR THOM NOBLE |
PRODUCTION DESIGNER DENNIS GASSNER DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY ROGER DEAKINS, B.S.C. EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS ERIC FELLNER AND TIM BEVAN |
CO-PRODUCER GRAHAM PLACE WRITTEN BY ETHAN COEN, JOEL COEN & SAM RAIMI |
PRODUCED BY ETHAN COEN DIRECTED BY JOEL COEN |
Hudsucker Industries is flourishing. Profits are stupendous, and stock is at an all-time high. So when their founder, Waring Hudsucker (Charles Durning- Moonstruck, Suspect) leaps to his death from the 44th floor, his board of directors is thrown into panic. Hudsucker has not left a will, and his majority shareholding in the company must therefore soon be offered for sale to the public. But scheming Vice President Sidney J. Mussburger (Paul Newman- The Sting, Nobody's Fool) has a plan. He'll install a complete imbecile as Chairman and devalue the stock to a level where the rest of the board can acquire controlling interests for themselves.
Enter inexperienced college leaver Norville Barnes (Tim Robbins- The Player, The Shawshank Redemption), a modest mail-room worker who suddenly finds himself elevated to Company Chairman. Not surprisingly, such a tale of rags-to-riches soon attracts considerable interest from the press in the form of gorgeous star reporter Amy Archer (Jennifer Jason Leigh- Single White Female, Backdraft).
As stock values plummet, everything appears to be going according to plan- untill Norville actually does the unimaginable and invents a brilliant company-saving idea... something that captures the imagination of an entire nation.
A COMEDY OF INVENTION
