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Overview

User Rating:
4.9/10   1,419 votes
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Down 38% in popularity this week. See why on IMDbPro.
Director:
Writers (WGA):
Kevin Falls (story) &
Tom Engelman (story) ...
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Release Date:
12 February 1993 (USA) more
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Tagline:
Don't get mad. Get promoted.
Plot:
A cookie company takeover has employees scrambling to make a case for continued employment. An executive's... more | add synopsis
Awards:
1 win more
NewsDesk:
Fright Night Remake on the Way
 (From TheMovingPicture. 13 May 2009, 10:21 PM, PDT)

User Comments:
Getting your expectations right... more (19 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Timothy Hutton ... Peter Derns

Lara Flynn Boyle ... Kris Bolin
Dwight Schultz ... Roger Jasser

Oliver Platt ... Jack Hartsell

Steven Weber ... Brad Montroe
Colleen Flynn ... Sara Meinhold

Faye Dunaway ... Charlene Towne
Scott Coffey ... Lance
Dakin Matthews ... Dr. Feldman

Maura Tierney ... Sharon Derns

Lin Shaye ... Rosemary
Michael Winters ... Mercer
Daniel C. Swanson ... Nathan Derns
Demene E. Hall ... Marla Higgins

Jesse Vint ... Larry
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Runtime:
99 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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The role played by Faye Dunaway was first offered to Diane Ladd: Dunaway and Ladd had both appeared in the film Chinatown (1974) in which Ladd's character impersonates Dunaway's. Dunaway was given the role as she was agreeable to a lesser fee than that asked by Ladd and also did not wish the star billing which Ladd did. more
Goofs:
Errors in geography: Though the movie takes place in Portland, Oregon, one of the characters is listening to a Seattle radio station, which would not transmit in Portland. more
Quotes:
Charlene Towne: [gasping] The picture! The picture! more
Movie Connections:
Features "The Arsenio Hall Show" (1989) more
Soundtrack:
It Ain't Country more

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2 out of 2 people found the following comment useful.
Getting your expectations right..., 26 September 2001
Author: Chris Cook from England

I too turned this film on not expecting much...in fact as something to fall asleep to...

BUT

its not as bad as you might think

Tim Hutton plays paranoid pretty much the same as he did in 'Dark Half' and Lara Flynne Boyle does a fine job as the obvious 'crazy' whilst managing to hold up one of the most ridiculous hairstyles in years...and the movie still works as long as you think of it as a sub-Fatal Attraction thriller and not expect some novel work of cinema

Give it a go...

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