The Hudsucker Proxy

The Hudsucker Proxy is a 1994 screwball comedy film cowritten, produced, and directed by Joel and Ethan Coen. Sam Raimi cowrote the script and served as second unit director. The film stars Tim Robbins as a nave businessschool 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 young man as part of a stock scam.

In December 1958, Norville Barnes Tim Robbins, a business college graduate from Muncie, Indiana, arrives in New York City looking for a job. He struggles due to lack of experience and becomes a mailroom clerk at Hudsucker Industries. Meanwhile, the companys founder and president, Waring Hudsucker Charles Durning, unexpectedly commits suicide during a business meeting by jumping out of a topfloor window. Afterwards, Sidney J. Mussburger Paul Newman, a ruthless member of the board of directors, learns Hudsuckers stock shares will be soon sold to the public, he mounts a scheme to buy the controlling interest in the company by temporarily depressing the stock price from hiring an incompetent president to replace Hudsucker.In the mailroom, Norville is assigned to deliver a Blue Letter, a topsecret communication from Hudsucker, sent shortly before his death, to Mussburger. However, Norville takes the opportunity to pitch an invention hes been working on which turns out to be a simple drawing of a circle. Believing Norville to be an idiot, Mussburger selects him as a proxy for Hudsucker. Across town, Amy Archer Jennifer Jason Leigh, a brassy Pulitzer Prizewinning reporter for the Manhattan Argus, is assigned to write a story about Norville and find out what kind of man he really is. She gets a job at Hudsucker Industries as his personal secretary, pretending to be yet another desperate graduate from Muncie. One night, Amy searches the building to find clues and meets Moses, a man who operates the towers giant clock and knows just about anything if it concerns Hudsucker. He tells her Mussburgers plot, and she takes the story back to her Chief John Mahoney, but he does not believe a word of it. ........

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