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Lazy, womanizing Jack gets employed at the NYC HQ of the multinational conglomerate, INC. Crazy chaos, promotions, firings, suicides etc. seem to be the way of the day.Lazy, womanizing Jack gets employed at the NYC HQ of the multinational conglomerate, INC. Crazy chaos, promotions, firings, suicides etc. seem to be the way of the day.Lazy, womanizing Jack gets employed at the NYC HQ of the multinational conglomerate, INC. Crazy chaos, promotions, firings, suicides etc. seem to be the way of the day.
Brian Doyle-Murray
- Colonel Tolliver
- (as Brian Doyle Murray)
- Director
- Writer
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- Trivia[00:08:23]When Frank Stedman (Danny DeVito) is looking at the article about him being investigated for illegally selling shares of stocks, the photo in the paper of him is actually a still photo of his Louie De Palma character from the television series ''Taxi'' (1978-1983).
- Goofs[25:38]When Jack is first shown his new office in Complaints, the name plate by his door appears and disappears between shots.
- Quotes
Max Landsberger: [14:14] Lesson No.1: beware of the furniture movers. When the axe falls, they're usually the first to know. People see them coming and they shit.
- Alternate versionsThe TV network version has various additional scenes which include:
- Jack walking across a basketball court and shooting a basket with some player friends of his while on his way to his first day at INC.
- Additional bit of dialog between Helms and General Toliver in the helicopter.
- A scene of Jack buying a Rolling Stones magazine at a corner news stand and the first introduction Robert Hoover and Al Kennedy bickering about Helms.
- Additional dialog between Jack and Jane in her office telling him that "information is power."
- Another bit of dialog where Kennedy discuses INC's plans for a proxy fight over a company called West Oil during the board meeting in which Helms disagrees.
- Helms detailing INC's strengths in another bit while discussing an unpaid phone bill over a client.
- Kennedy telling Jane about him quitting INC and his plan for asking Helms to join a Los Angeles office during the board meeting scene with the little German-speaking man.
- Additional scene of Jack first arriving at Helms' house and a frantic Kennedy trying to talk to Helms during his morning jog around his back garden about an Los Angeles job and being set upon by a guard dog as well as treading across a reflecting pond to keep up with him.
- ConnectionsReferenced in The Big Kahuna (1999)
- SoundtracksCry On Your Own Shoulder
Performed by General Public
Written by General Public
Produced by General Public and Greg Ladanyi
Courtesy of I.R.S. Records and Virgin Records
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I have read the other comments here and I do understand everyone has their point of view. I agree that if you have never worked for a huge corporation (where employees are numbers not faces)then this movie will probably seem like nothing more than a stooges flick with big name cameos. I as a rental when I was working for Raytheon as a secretary and I can officially say that this movie is hysterical. It starts out fast in the opening with DeVito and then later on with poor Reinhold in the complaints department... if you have ever worked for PR or Customer support this will hit home in extremes! I love it and have looked for the video for years when it seemed to disappear off the face of the Video world (unless you bought it from a used video store's antique collection). I still hope it will eventually be released to DVD but until then I will be content with my video and hope to not wear it out. :)
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Box office
- Budget
- $9,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $3,393,807
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $1,937,934
- Jan 5, 1986
- Gross worldwide
- $3,393,807
- Runtime1 hour 30 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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