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The Hudsucker Proxy
A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.
15 September 1945, Quincy, Illinois, USA
14 December 1984, Wilmington, North Carolina, USA
4 September 1942, Camden, Tennessee, USA
27 May 1955, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
31 July 1966, Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
January 15, 2005
[The Coens'] inventive style and the over-the-top performances from Robbins and Newman make this a feast for the eyes and a barrel of laughs.
January 01, 2000
If something brilliant is happening in The Hudsucker Proxy -- and you're meant to believe that it is -- it's apparent only to Ethan and Joel Coen.
June 24, 2006
A minor work, but confirmation of the Coens' position among America's most ambitious, able and exciting film-makers.
April 03, 2005
Criminally overlooked and sinfully wonderful Coen brothers comedy. Jennifer Jason Leigh is just flawless here.
November 06, 2007
An impressive technical achievement--the period New York sets are to die for -- and its version of the invention of the hula-hoop is a comic highlight.
August 04, 2010
A pastiche of a movie that lacks distinct identity and authenticity, made up of borrowed parts from scrwball comedies Frank Capra, Howard Hawks, and Preston Sturges.
November 06, 2007
A jeering, dreamlike comedy with nothing much on its mind except how neat the Coen brothers are and how stupid or contemptible everybody else is, including everyone in the audience.
November 30, 2006
Bizarre, yet typical Coen comedy. Very dark and cartoonish.
November 06, 2007
Nearly everything in the Coen brothers' latest and biggest film seems like a wizardly but artificial synthesis, leaving a hole in the middle where some emotion and humanity should be.
May 20, 2003
Movies are, after all, about fakery; so is the story of Norville's rise and fall and redemption.
November 06, 2007
A visually arresting but emotionally uninvolving dark comedy.
February 01, 2014
Few of the Coen Brothers' films spike the vein of pure pleasure as easily. It's an irresistibly loquacious, unpredictably riotous comedy that dares you to keep up with its daffiness and doesn't give a damn whether you get left behind.