Head Office

19851985
PG-13PG-13
1h 30m

Danny DeVito, Eddie Albert, Rick Moranis, Judge Reinhold, Merritt Butrick, Lori-Nan Engler, Ron Frazier, John Kapelos, and Richard Masur in Head Office (1985)

Lazy, womanizing Jack gets employed at the NYC HQ of the multinational conglomerate, INC. Crazy chaos, promotions, firings, suicides etc. seem to be the way of the day.Lazy, womanizing Jack gets employed at the NYC HQ of the multinational conglomerate, INC. Crazy chaos, promotions, firings, suicides etc. seem to be the way of the day.Lazy, womanizing Jack gets employed at the NYC HQ of the multinational conglomerate, INC. Crazy chaos, promotions, firings, suicides etc. seem to be the way of the day.

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Eddie Albert and Judge Reinhold in Head Office (1985)

Rick Moranis in Head Office (1985)

Judge Reinhold in Head Office (1985)

Judge Reinhold and Lori-Nan Engler in Head Office (1985)

Jane Seymour in Head Office (1985)

Judge Reinhold in Head Office (1985)

Judge Reinhold and Jane Seymour in Head Office (1985)

Judge Reinhold and Jane Seymour in Head Office (1985)

Judge Reinhold and Jane Seymour in Head Office (1985)

Judge Reinhold, Wallace Shawn, Ron Frazier, Michael O'Donoghue, and Bruce Wagner in Head Office (1985)

Michael O'Donoghue in Head Office (1985)

Bruce Wagner in Head Office (1985)

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Upon graduation from college with a business degree, John Issel is promptly hired by Helmes's company I.N.C. At INC, the one who gets ahead, does it by kissing ass, or over someone else's dead body. John keeps getting promotions, but cant figure out why. Actually management doesn't care about him, they hope that having hired him, his father, Senator Issel, will vote the way they like. —Brian W Martz <B.Martz@Genie.com>

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Taglines
- An Outrageous Comedy About Making It Big In Big Business
Genre
- Comedy
Certificate
- PG-13
Parents guide

Trivia
When Stedman (Danny Devito) is looking at the article about him being investigated for illegally selling shares of stocks, the photo in the paper of Devito is actually still shot of his Taxi character Louie De Palma.

Goofs
When Jack is first shown his new office in Complaints, the name plate by his door appears and disappears between shots.

Quotes
Max Landsberger: Lesson No.1: beware of the furniture movers. When the axe falls, they're usually the first to know. People see them coming and they shit.

Alternate versions
The TV network version has various additional scenes which include:
Jack walking across a basketball court and shooting a basket with some player friends of his while on his way to his first day at INC.
Additional bit of dialog between Helms and General Toliver in the helicopter.
A scene of Jack buying a Rolling Stones magazine at a corner news stand and the first introduction Robert Hoover and Al Kennedy bickering about Helms.
Additional dialog between Jack and Jane in her office telling him that "information is power."
Another bit of dialog where Kennedy discuses INC's plans for a proxy fight over a company called West Oil during the board meeting in which Helms disagrees.
Helms detailing INC's strengths in another bit while discussing an unpaid phone bill over a client.
Kennedy telling Jane about him quitting INC and his plan for asking Helms to join a Los Angeles office during the board meeting scene with the little German-speaking man.
Additional scene of Jack first arriving at Helms' house and a frantic Kennedy trying to talk to Helms during his morning jog around his back garden about an Los Angeles job and being set upon by a guard dog as well as treading across a reflecting pond to keep up with him.

Connections
Referenced in The Cinema Snob: Crackerjack 2: Hostage Train (2017)

Soundtracks
CRY ON YOUR OWN SHOULDER
Performed by General Public
Written by General Public
Produced by General Public and Greg Ladanyi
Courtesy of I.R.S. Records and Virgin Records

Top review

6/10

Rick Moranis's Sons are so lucky they get him all to themselves

John Issel (Judge Reinhold) gets handballed a cushy job straight out of business school, and gets all up on his moral high ground in a frankly preposterous company. There is a love interest and a bunch of characters (EVEN DON KING) and some banging 80s music. Also there is a bizarre interest in ball bearings, a curious theme that spreads through a number of money films I've noticed.

Rick Moranis and Danny DeVito are DEAD funny in Head Office. The neighbours heard me laughing.

Man Rick Moranis is funny as hell in this, Space Balls funny. And considering there is no more Rick Moranis going around now you might want to get on this one.

***Spoiler Alert***

However both Moranis and Devito die in the first 15 minutes of the film, literally killed off, and it's mostly awful after this (mostly). I mean you can keep watching, but instead just watch walking dead or a MASH rerun or something. Did HBO just offer them some lovely contract, you know; be stars, act like crazy, get paid, we can just fumble through finishing the rest of this film while you go back to making real films?

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Release date
- January 3, 1986 (United States)
Country of origin
- United States
Language
- English
Also known as
- Männer für jeden Job
Filming locations
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Production companies
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Gross US & Canada
- $3,393,807
Opening weekend US & Canada
- $1,937,934
- Jan 5, 1986
Gross worldwide
- $3,393,807

See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

Runtime
1 hour 30 minutes
Color
- Color
Sound mix
- Dolby Stereo
Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1

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Danny DeVito, Eddie Albert, Rick Moranis, Judge Reinhold, Merritt Butrick, Lori-Nan Engler, Ron Frazier, John Kapelos, and Richard Masur in Head Office (1985)

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