Director: Herbert Ross

Writers: Jim Cash; Jack Epps, Jr.; A. J. Carothers

Music by: David Foster

Producer: Herbert Ross

Keywords: Comedy

A college boy from Kansas arrives in Manhattan but nobody will hire him; he finds a job as a postal clerk at his uncle's company. The necessity of impressing a certain young lady prompts him to adopt an ambitious parallel identity, Carlton Whitfield, who looks like executive material but for obvious reasons can't be in the same place as his uncle. Classic 1980s take on How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967).

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Rick Aviles	Comic	14-Oct-1952	17-Mar-1995	Ghost
Bill Fagerbakke	Actor	4-Oct-1957		Dauber Dybinski on Coach
Michael J. Fox	Actor	9-Jun-1961		Back to the Future
Fred Gwynne	Actor	10-Jul-1926	2-Jul-1993	Herman on The Munsters
Richard Jordan	Actor	19-Jul-1938	30-Aug-1993	Logan's Run
Judith Malina	Actor	4-Jun-1926	10-Apr-2015	Co-Founder, The Living Theatre
Mark Margolis	Actor	26-Nov-1939		The Fountain
John Pankow	Actor	28-Apr-1954		Ira on Mad About You
Mercedes Ruehl	Actor	28-Feb-1948		Married to the Mob
Helen Slater	Actor	15-Dec-1963		Supergirl
Carol Ann Susi	Actor	2-Feb-1952	11-Nov-2014	Mrs. Wolowitz on The Big Bang Theory
Margaret Whitton	Actor	30-Nov-1950	4-Dec-2016	The Secret of My Succe$s

CAST

Michael J. Fox	...   Brantley Foster
Helen Slater	...   Christy Wills
Richard Jordan	...   Howard Prescott
Margaret Whitton	...   Vera Prescott
Christopher Murney	...   Barney Rattigan
John Pankow	...   Fred Melrose
Gerry Bamman	...   Art Thomas
Carol Ann Susi	...   Jean
Elizabeth Franz	...   Grace Foster
Drew Snyder	...   Burt Foster
Christopher Durang	...   Davis
and
Fred Gwynne	...   Donald Davenport
Susan Kellermann	...   Maureen
Barton Heyman	...   Arnold Forbush
Mercedes Ruehl	...   Sheila
Ira B. Wheeler	...   Owens
Ashley J. Laurence	...   Fletcher
Rex Robbins	...   McMasters
MacIntyre Dixon	...   Ferguson
Bill Fagerbakke	...   Ron
Jack Davidson	...   Davidson
John Bowman	...   Proctor
Jeff Brooks	...   Executive
Ascanio Sharpe	...   Executive
Don Amendolia	...   Executive
Judith Malina	...   Mrs. Meacham
Mary Catherine Wright	...   Research Department Clerk
Joseph Ragno	...   Shipping Executive
Burke Pearson	...   Fired Executive
Ray Ramirez	...   Liquor Store Owner
Gloria Irizarry	...   Wife of Liquor Store Owner
Mark Margolis	...   Maintenence Man
Rick Aviles	...   Maintenance Man
John C. Capodice	...   Man in KRS Building
Sally-Jane Heit	...   Woman in KRS Building
Richard Arthur Gallo	...   Harried KRS Executive
Luis Ramos	...   Cuban

REVIEWS

Review by Camillo Messina (posted on 17-Jul-2007)

The greatest corporate/executive/work movie I have ever seen. I wish my everyday job was like this movie. I fantasize about it all the time thinking maybe I can come up with some kind of scheme at my current job. I bought the DVD and found out from the menu on the characters that Richard Jordan had died in 1993 from a brain tumor. Very sad. I watch the movie all the time and substitute my bosses and upper management employees with the characters in the movie. I wish Howard Prescott was my boss and I worked at Pemrose Company. RIP Richard Jordan, you're the best. ****

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