Episode 686: The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)

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Tv & Film, Film Interviews, Film Reviews, Film History

4.6 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2024

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Our month appreciating comedic films continues with The Coen Brothers’ Hudsucker Proxy. Released in 1994, the film stars Tim Robbins as Norville Barnes, a graduate of Muncie Indiana’s business school. He gets a job at Hudsucker Industries whose CEO, Waring Hudsucker, happens to join the great hereafter the day Norville begins work. After a mix-up, Barnes goes all the way from the mail room to the boardroom and becomes the new interim head of the corporation.

Rahne Alexander and David Kittrredge join Mike to discuss the ins, the outs, and the what-have-yous about this oft-overlooked tribute to classic screwball comedies told only in the way that the Coen Brothers (and Sam Raimi) could tell it.

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0:00.0	Hold your ears, folks.
0:06.8	It's showtime.
0:08.6	People pay good money to see this movie.
0:10.9	When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth.
0:17.3	Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.
0:20.1	Cut it off.
0:21.6	Turn it off.
0:24.6	Turn it off. Once upon a time, the American dream was power, wealth, and success.
0:53.3	But in the city that never sleeps, the American dream is about to get a wake-up call.
1:00.0	Just got higher today, you know, entry level.
1:06.0	But I got big ideas.
1:08.0	When the president, an owner of 87% of the company's stock, drops.
1:12.7	Then the company, too, has a problem.
1:15.0	What we need now as a new president.
1:17.3	Some jerk.
1:18.6	I like this on fire.
1:20.1	We can really push around.
1:21.8	Yo!
1:22.5	Yeah, you, boss!
1:23.7	This letter was sat down this morning by the big man himself.
1:26.6	See how, huh?
1:29.3	Go ahead. Try it on. The Portman City on Idea, man, when they promoted you from the mail room.
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