The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)

Where has this movie been all my life? It is basically about a newbie mailroom boy who gets promoted to the president of a company because the CEO wants a proxy to help crash the stock into the ground so that they can buy it cheap and have no outside public investors. But the mailroom boy played my the amazing Tim Robbins has a circle drawn on a piece of paper and etc, etc, etc go watch this movie. It is a larger than life comedy meets film noir meets art-deco meets whatever it wants to be. What a tour 'de force when it comes to world building! The script does drag towards the end and the end itself is a pickle of a problem but all is forgiven because most of this film is brilliant.

This has got to be the worst performance I have ever seen of Paul Newman. If they had used this for the recipe of his spaghetti sauce, ugh.I think this movie might have been better made in the 1950's as it seems that far out of touch with the 1990's. The want ad in the newspaper says it all when it says "want a job where you slave for hours on end with no little or no pay? Work at HudsuckerActually it might take that much work to like this movie. When Robert Osborne introduced it on TCM he mainly mentioned the big names in the cast and the fact that the Coen's got their start with 8MM films. Think they were still doing that when they wrote and filmed this one. They were obviously too big for their britches here as this film falls far short of what they were trying for.There is a rumor that the real movie was put in a port-o-john on the film location by mistake and this is the out takes?

I have seen The Hud a half dozen times and it never gets old. From the opening sequence to the closing musical score this film keeps me enraptured.The art directing, the costumes, the music, the script all work together to make a movie of unprecedented beauty. Tim Robbins is perfect in this role and the supporting cast all come off the screen as unforgettable characters I proudly tell anyone who asks that this is my favorite film of all times.Sure, sure, art is subjective and some people do not care for such films. I feel sorry for them.This is a perfect film.

It fills me with really great satisfaction to see such an excellently made and acted movie. Every word, scene, prop, and symbol are perfectly blended into one great awesome package. It's incredibly funny, a as matter of fact it has one of the longest funny scenes I have ever seen in my life, and not a word is spoken in it. Kudos to everyone in this film, directing is amazing, the visualization magnificent. It's hilarious, yet thoughtful, morally uplifting, educational, proves a very valid point, and was released in 1994. I want to thank my friend for watching it with me immediately upon learning that I had not seen it before. Simply, wow and a whole lot of whohohohohohahahahahhaohohohoho!!!!!........