 | Capra-esque |
When giant Hudsucker Industries' president, Waring Hudsucker (Charles Durning), leaps 44 stories to his death during a board meeting, the company's second-in-command, Sid Mussberger (Paul Newman), spawns a plot to prevent the general public from buying up Waring's 83 percent interest in the company while also driving down the stock value so he can buy up controlling interest in the organization.
Enter one innocent yet ambitious young Norville Barnes (Tim Robbins), a new Hudsucker mailroom clerk who is assigned to deliver an important missive to Mussberger's own hands.
In his anxiety of being in the top floor executive office, poor Barnes turns into a total doofus who first raises Mussberger's ire and then becomes Mussberger's vision of the perfect proxy -- a new president for the company who Mussberger can control and ultimately use to manipulate the stock to suit his plan.
With young Barnes as president, the stock does go down and fiesty reporter Amy Archer (Jennifer Jason Leigh) sets about to expose him in a wonderful reincarnation of all the Katherine Hepburn/Rosalind Russell fast-talking, dazzle-'em journalist style from the films of the 1930s.
Will good prevail and redemption be feasible?
Ranks right up there with It's a Wonderful Life!
A fun and stylish film by brothers Ethan and Joel Coen.
Unrated by MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America).
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