Head Office

Head Office (1985)

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