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Director:
Ken Finkleman
Writer:
Ken Finkleman (written by)
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Release Date:
3 January 1986 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy more
Tagline:
An Outrageous Comedy About Making It Big In Big Business more
Plot:
Upon graduation from college with a business degree, John Issel is promptly hired by Helmes's company I.N.C... more | add synopsis
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User Comments:
Excellent movie for those working in large corporations more (19 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Judge Reinhold ... Jack Issel
Lori-Nan Engler ... Rachael Helmes
Eddie Albert ... Pete Helmes
Merritt Butrick ... John Hudson
Ron Frazier ... Bob Nixon
Richard Masur ... Max Landsberger
Rick Moranis ... Howard Gross
Don Novello ... Sal
Michael O'Donoghue ... Scott Dantley

Jane Seymour ... Jane Caldwell

Wallace Shawn ... Mike Hoover
Bruce Wagner ... Al Kennedy

Danny DeVito ... Frank Stedman
Ron James ... Mark Rabinovich

John Kapelos ... General Sepulveda
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Runtime:
90 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Metrocolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby
Certification:
Australia:M | Finland:K-16 | USA:PG-13 | West Germany:16
Filming Locations:
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Company:
Guber-Peters Company, The more

Fun Stuff

Quotes:
Max Landsberger: Since the 1984 oil discovery in New Guinea, we have sold the Bu!kais hill tribesmen 20 of our S-24 fighters. At $21 million per unit, that's $252 million. This has started a local arms race between the Bu!kais, and their local neighbors the Kla!klalas. Now the Kla!klalas also happen to be sitting an a large amount of oil. And now the Kla!klalas want to buy 20 of our new Slash X-Ray Ultra Pursuit fighters for a total of $480 million.
Pete Helmes: What are the chances of war between them?
Bob Nixon: Very good sir. Our spare parts replacement contracts could be very lucrative.
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Movie Connections:
References "Real People" (1979) more
Soundtrack:
YOU NEED LOVE more

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5 out of 5 people found the following comment useful.
Excellent movie for those working in large corporations, 6 June 2000
9/10
Author: petervee from Ottawa, Canada

As the other reviewer says, this is definitely a gem of a movie! If you work in a 15000+ employee corporation, you will see what we mean.

Danny De Vito is excellent as a manager who has been forced to jump to his early fall from an office window; Don Novello as the car driver with a taste for Julio Iglessias; Judge Rheinhold playing Jack Issel is great as the son of a congressman; Rick Moranis as a PR head is also great especially with the delivery of the line "I love this business" as he is checking his blood pressure; as is Jane Seymour, offering the line, after making love to a colleague: 'I wouldn't be much if a screwed my way to the bottom."

Great movie all round. I specially liked the line "we make everything from toilet paper to nuclear power plants."

You will certainly enjoy this one!

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