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 The Corporate Ladder, 2008-10-05
This is a very funny movie, well written and acted. It's a hilarious view of how some people move up in a big corporation. We bought the VHS years ago and wore it out! The DVD version is even better.
 Head Office, 2008-03-23
This movie is very funny and highly underated. It surprises me that it's never shown on tv.
Still funny after more than 20 years, 2008-02-16
Great cast here--Danny de Vito, Rick Moranis, Wallace Shawn, Judge Rheinhold, Jane Seymour, Eddie Albert, Brian Doyle-Murray, George Coe, Richard Masur, Don Novello. This is a corporate satire from 1985 that still has great chops, thanks to writer-director Ken Finkleman. Here we have Inc. International, a giant mega-corporation that makes everything from, as CEO and pitchman Eddie Albert says in the opening piece, creamy peanut butter to nuclear warheads.
Sex and power figure largely here, as do politics, greed, and all that fun stuff. There are not one, not two, but THREE--yes, folks, count 'em, THREE--nervous wrecks, personified by Rick Moranis, Wallace Shawn, and Danny DeVito (you can tell he just recently lost some hair). Well, that's about accurate--corporate life can make you a nervous wreck if you're a middle level exec, not sure if you're on your way up, down, or foever stuck in your current spot.
Our hero, as it were, played by Judge Rheinhold (is that the right spelling of the guy's name? I never did find out for sure) who's the son of US Senator Something-or-Other, played by George Coe and who winds up at Inc. International cause CEO Eddie wants Judge in the company, the better to influence Senator George to do what he wants. Yep, Eddie is no dope.
Now it could be that this sounds kind of corny or cliched but Mr. Finkleman is too sharp to let that happen. There's more than enough razor-edge dialogue to make it so. This is a heck of a lot of fun to watch; it's a hoot to see Rick Moranis talk a mile a minute as he races up his blood pressure to a level that ultimately changes the population of the world, if you get my drift.
Big dollops of black humor fit snugly into the groove here right alongside a love story in the overall context of a nice edgy satire. It's Judge's story but there's enough side-splitting stuff provided by a whole lot of other characters to make this nifty and funny from head to toe--Don Novello as the limo driver who always misses exits; Jane Seymour as the hyperkinetic sexpot exec whose appetite is unlimited; Richard Masur as the smooth-talking corporate guy who always keeps his job (unlike so many others) basically because a) he knows the rules inside and out and recites them to Judge, and b) because basically while following the rules he doesn't give a flying fork about much of anything.
Well, you get the idea. Hey, I can think of a lot worse ways to spend an hour and a half. Groovy stuff.
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Great Movie, Great Price!!, 2007-12-13
My husband & I were so happy to see that this movie was out on DVD we bought it right away. Used to have it on VHS, but those days are definitely bygone. Amazon is a really great source to find those older classics that you love on DVD that you can't find at any of the stores. Also Amazon has awesome customer service, we had a problem with the order, I got someone else's to begin with, but I was actually able to speak with a rep who straightened everything out instead of just having to frustratingly deal with the issue online. Great Movie, Great Price.
This is my favorite corporate parody., 2007-09-05
Some of the stars missing from the description are:
1. Jane Seymour in the funniest thing she's ever done as a barracuda sleeping her way to the top.
2. Judge Rienhold as the corporate neophyte.
3. Rick Masur who explains the unvarnished subtext of the movie.
4. Don King as a an over the top charachiture of a token board member.
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