Un giovane di talento non può ottenere una posizione esecutiva senza salire di grado, quindi trova una scorciatoia, che giova anche alla sua vita amorosa.Un giovane di talento non può ottenere una posizione esecutiva senza salire di grado, quindi trova una scorciatoia, che giova anche alla sua vita amorosa.Un giovane di talento non può ottenere una posizione esecutiva senza salire di grado, quindi trova una scorciatoia, che giova anche alla sua vita amorosa.
- Premi
- 1 vittoria e 1 candidatura
- Jean
- (as Carol-Ann Susi)
- Owens
- (as Ira B. Wheeler)
Trama
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- QuizWhen Brantley, a non-smoker, puts his feet up on the desk, he reveals dozens of burn marks. At the time, Michael J. Fox was a heavy smoker. The burn marks are the result of Fox extinguishing cigarettes with his shoe.
- BlooperWhen Brantley answers the phone in the office for the first time before starting his "con" as Carlton, his hair length and color change during the course of the call.
- Citazioni
[after sex]
Brantley Foster: Can I make a personal observation?
Vera Prescott: Um, anything but the thighs.
Brantley Foster: You know, somebody sold you a bill of goods and convinced you you had to be 21 forever. That's bullshit. I think you're terrific; I think the only thing wrong with you is your husband is a jerk. You're beautiful, you're intelligent, you're sensuous...
Vera Prescott: Say that again!
Brantley Foster: Which part?
Vera Prescott: All of it!
[sounds of car]
Vera Prescott: Oh, no.
Brantley Foster: What, what is it?
Vera Prescott: It's the jerk.
[Brantley rushes to the window]
Vera Prescott: My husband.
Brantley Foster: My uncle!
Vera Prescott: Your what?
Brantley Foster: Oh God, that makes you...
Vera Prescott: Auntie Vera?
Brantley Foster: Oh! God!
[Vera laughs]
Brantley Foster: Oh God, oh God, oh God! What's my mother going to say? I've disgraced my whole family!
Vera Prescott: Oh, the hell you did!
- Versioni alternativeThere are two different ending sequences. In the first, after they leave the boardroom Fred and Vera meet and start to flirt. Christy and Brantley go into the elevator which stops between floors. In the second version, this scene is ommitted and we cut to several weeks later where the two couples climb into a limo and go the opera. The first shows up on the video releases, whereas the second shows up in broadcast versions.
- Colonne sonoreRiskin' a Romance
Written by Siobhan Fahey, Ollie Marland and Paul Weller
Performed by Bananarama
Produced by Daryl Hall and T-Bone Wolk (as Tom 'T-Bone' Wolk)
Bananarama appears courtesy of London Records Ltd.
In fact, the title "The Secret of My Succe$s" already says enough about what you can expect from this movie (also notice the little dollar sign in the title), but I'll give a short resume anyway. It shows how Brantley Foster, a talented and well-educated young man coming from rural Kansas, goes to New York to find a suiting job and a nice girlfriend. But he isn't very successful, no company wants to hire him, because he doesn't have any experience. Before leaving Kansas for the Big Apple, his father had bought him a return ticket home and his mother gave him the address of his in New York living uncle, Howard Prescott, just in case when he should need some help. But what Foster didn't know is that his uncle runs a multi-million-dollar company. When he pays him a visit, he gets a job ... in the mail room. But then he meets Christy Wills, who happens to be one of the top executives. Believing that the best way to win her over is by posing as an executive, Brantley decides to take a position under the name Carlton Whitfield and of course things soon start to get completely out of hand...
I admit that this movie is as 'eighties' as you can get them. I'm pretty sure that no-one of todays directors would be able to make it exactly the way it looks, because they don't write scripts like that anymore and there are no more actors like Fox. The man that comes closest for this kind of role is probably Jim Carrey, but even then you would get a completely different kind of movie. It's probably thanks to Michael J. Fox, who is really very nice in this movie, that I forgot about most of its flaws. Once again he's the boyish, sweet guy and that's probably the best thing this movie has to offer. If it hadn't been for him, almost no-one would ever have seen the movie or would still remember it because the story isn't special and it's too typical for that time period.
All in all this is a fast-paced comedy full of typical eighties clichés, but it works thanks to Michael J. Fox's performance and that's why I still give it a 7/10.
- philip_vanderveken
- 22 giu 2005
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- Data di uscita
- Paese di origine
- Lingua
- Celebre anche come
- The Secret of My Success
- Luoghi delle riprese
- 919 Third Avenue, New York, New York, Stati Uniti(Pemrose Roof and Jog Track)
- Aziende produttrici
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- Budget
- 12.000.000 USD (previsto)
- Lordo Stati Uniti e Canada
- 66.995.879 USD
- Fine settimana di apertura Stati Uniti e Canada
- 7.766.452 USD
- 12 apr 1987
- Lordo in tutto il mondo
- 110.996.879 USD
- Tempo di esecuzione1 ora 51 minuti
- Colore
- Mix di suoni
- Proporzioni
- 1.85 : 1