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7.1A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.
Cast
- Tim Robbins as Norville Barnes
- Jennifer Jason Leigh as Amy Archer
- Paul Newman as Sidney J. Mussburger
- Charles Durning as Waring Hudsucker
- Jim True-Frost as Buzz
- John Mahoney as Chief
Themes
- new year's eve
- new york city
- journalist
- suicide
- plan
- corruption
- undercover
- inventor
- boss
- investigation
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Joel Coen
- Written by
- Ethan Coen Joel Coen Sam Raimi
- Produced by
- Ethan Coen
- Starring
- Tim Robbins Jennifer Jason Leigh Paul Newman
- Cinematography
- Roger Deakins
- Edited by
- Thom Noble
- Music by
- Carter Burwell
- Production companies
- Silver Pictures Working Title Films PolyGram Filmed Entertainment
- Distributed by
- Warner Bros. (United States) Rank Film Distributors (United Kingdom) Manifesto Film Sales (International)
- Release dates
- January 27, 1994 ( 1994-01-27 ) ( Sundance ) March 11, 1994 ( 1994-03-11 ) (United States) September 2, 1994 ( 1994-09-02 ) (United Kingdom)
- Running time
- 111 minutes
- Countries
- United Kingdom United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $25 million
- Box office
- $11 million
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Encyclopedic overview
The Hudsucker Proxy is a 1994 screwball comedy film co-written, produced, and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. Sam Raimi co-wrote the script and served as second unit director. The film stars Tim Robbins as a naïve but ambitious business school graduate who is installed as president of a manufacturing company, Jennifer Jason Leigh as a newspaper reporter, and Paul Newman as a company director who hires the graduate as part of a stock scam.
The script was finished in 1985, but production did not start until 1991, when Joel Silver acquired the script for Silver Pictures. Warner Bros. Pictures subsequently agreed to distribute the film, with further financing from PolyGram Filmed Entertainment and Working Title Films. Filming at Carolco Studios in Wilmington, North Carolina, lasted from November 1992 to March 1993. The New York City scale model set was designed by Michael J. McAlister and Mark Stetson, with further effects provided by The Computer Film Company.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “The Hudsucker Proxy” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.