Head Office (1985)
Directed by Ken Finkleman
Genres - Comedy |
Sub-Genres - Satire, Workplace Comedy |
Release Date - Jan 3, 1986 (USA) |
Run Time - 86 min. |
Countries - United States |
MPAA Rating - PG13
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Synopsis by Eleanor Mannikka
With a script that is too anemic for the red-blooded actors featured here, this anorexic comedy moves slowly up and down the corporate ladder with the fortunes and misfortunes of several company men. Jack Issel (Judge Reinhold) gets a VIP position at INC in the PR department (business-speak). Suddenly the corporation's shady activities come to the fore -- especially when a U.S. plant is set to close for a move south of the border where labor is almost free. Enmeshed in these tangles, Jack is hardly prepared to fall in love with the leading activist against the plant closing -- but he does. Meanwhile, a lot of other subplots quickly dispose of potentially budding villains like Stedman (Danny DeVito) the inside trader -- too bad. DeVito and Don King (appearing as himself) would have made a great team.
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activism, business, business-corruption, corporate-ladder, public-relations