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  • 1986
  • PG-13
  • TriStar Pictures
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 1986
  • PG-13
  • TriStar Pictures
  • 1 h 30 m

Summary Upon graduation from college with a business degree, John Issel (Judge Reinhold) 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 h...

Directed By: Ken Finkleman

Written By: Ken Finkleman

  • 1986
  • PG-13
  • TriStar Pictures
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 1986
  • PG-13
  • TriStar Pictures
  • 1 h 30 m

Head Office

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Summary Upon graduation from college with a business degree, John Issel (Judge Reinhold) 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 h...

Directed By: Ken Finkleman

Written By: Ken Finkleman

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Generally Unfavorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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It`s a lamebrained movie, without much sense in its construction.
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50
Has a droll tone that sets it well above comedy's lowest common denominator. But it also has a bloodlessness that keeps it from being funny very often.
By Janet Maslin FULL REVIEW
38
If it had the guts to be either zany or pointed, it might have been both; instead, it's neither. It's an old copy of Mad magazine that wouldn't have been your favorite even when you were 12. [6 Jan 1986, p.C11]
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30
Reinhold has a face that is halfway between leading-man handsome and Donald Duck, and a relaxed, drawling confidence with a line -- he seems to float not above the action but on it, like oil on water. And he seems to survive Head Office, a comedy so confused and cowardly it makes television look daring. [4 Jan 1986, p.D4]
By Paul Attanasio FULL REVIEW
30
Here is a satire about government and business corruption that's as empty, corrupt and manipulative as everything it attacks: a frantic, jokeless comedy about selling out, that sells out itself constantly. This is another big, dumb, pointless picture, a "high concept" movie that's all concept and no movie.
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25
Head Office has fleetingly funny moments -- Don (Father Guido Sarducci) Novello's attempt to lure women into his limo to listen to boring pop tapes, a Don King rap that's almost as funny as his hair -- but overall, this is one movie that's bankrupt. [7 Jan 1986, p.4]
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Unforgivably bad, painfully unfunny, and downright stupid, HEAD OFFICE tries to do to the corporate world what AIRPLANE did to the airlines. A needle in a haystack would be easier to find than a laugh in this film--which is surprising, considering that the cast includes such names as DeVito, Moranis, Novello, Doyle-Murray, and Shawn.
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Production Company HBO Pictures, Silver Screen Partners, Guber-Peters Company
Release Date Jan 3, 1986
Duration 1 h 30 m
Rating PG-13
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Tagline An Outrageous Comedy About Making It Big In Big Business
Website https://mt2.org/uyeler/head-office.15989/
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