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Rating: 3 stars

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The Secret of My Success (1987)

Directed by Herbert Ross

Comedy

Overview

Brantley Foster, a well-educated kid from Kansas, has always dreamed of making it big in New York, but once in New York, he learns that jobs - and girls - are hard to get. When Brantley visits his uncle, Howard Prescott, who runs a multi-million-dollar company, he is given a job in the company’s mail room.

Rated PG-13 | Length 111 minutes

Actors

Michael J. Fox | Helen Slater | Richard Jordan | Margaret Whitton | John Pankow | Christopher Murney | Gerry Bamman | Fred Gwynne | Carol Ann Susi | Elizabeth Franz | Drew Snyder | Susan Kellermann | Barton Heyman | Mercedes Ruehl | Ira Wheeler | Ashley J. Laurence | Rex Robbins | Christopher Durang | MacIntyre Dixon | Bill Fagerbakke | Jack Davidson | John Bowman | Jeff Brooks | Ascanio Sharpe | Don Amendolia | Judith Malina | Mary Catherine Wright | Joseph Ragno | Burke Pearson | Ray Ramirez | Gloria Irizarry | Mark Margolis | Rick Aviles | John Capodice | Sally-Jane Heit | Richard Arthur Gallo | Luis Antonio Ramos | Cindy Crawford | R. Emmett Fitzsimmons | Elain R. Graham | London Hall | Bruce McGill | Tatjana Patitz | Rhoda Robinson | Tucker Smallwood

Viewing History (seen 1 time)

Viewing Notes

One of those Eighties movies that exemplifies what I miss about the decade: the earnestness and hope in cinema without any of the cynicism that came later. It’s cheesy, but fun, if a little too long.

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