The Hudsucker Proxy
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 32 Ratings
- Starring: Jennifer Jason Leigh, Paul Newman, Tim Robbins
- Summary: A satirical comedy about the world of big business and corporate greed. An ambitious but naive young man rapidly moves up the corporate ladder from the mailroom to the executive suite, unaware that he is part of the board of directors' nefarious scheme. (Warner Bros.)
- Director: Ethan Coen
- Genre(s): Drama, Fantasy, Comedy, Romance
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Positive: 8 out of 19
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Mixed: 8 out of 19
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88In The Hudsucker Proxy, the filmmaking Coen brothers make dark, startling, wittily extravagant sport of the American Dream. The movie is opulent and wry, a bitingly intelligent fable about business and romance. [25 Mar 1994, p.A]
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80While not to everyone's tastes, this is without doubt one of the most exhilarating films of 1994.
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60If The Hudsucker Proxy is a triumph, it is a zombie one. Too cold, too elegant, too perfect, more an exhibit in a cinema museum than a flesh-and-blood film, "Proxy's" highly polished surface leaves barely any space for an audience's emotional connection. [11 Mar 1994, p.1]
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30The Coens have deliberately cut themselves off from their best subject. Try as they will to create a vision of corporate (and urban) hellishness through sheer stylishness, theirs is a truly abstract expressionism, at once heavy, lifeless and dry.
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