Rotten
A visually arresting but emotionally uninvolving dark comedy.
Duane Byrge, Hollywood Reporter
The Hudsucker Proxy
They took him for a fall guy... but he threw them for a hoop.
1994 · 1h 51m · PG
Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Directed by
Ethan Coen
,
Joel Coen
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The Hudsucker Proxy
Overview
A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.
Director and cast
- Ethan Coen Director
- Joel Coen Director
- Tim Robbins as Norville Barnes
- Jennifer Jason Leigh as Amy Archer
- Paul Newman as Sidney J. Mussburger
- Charles Durning as Waring Hudsucker
- Jim True-Frost as Buzz
- John Mahoney as Chief
- Bill Cobbs as Moses
- Bruce Campbell as Smitty
- Harry Bugin as Aloysius
- John Seitz as Benny
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
64%
Tomatometer
Rotten
A jeering, dreamlike comedy with nothing much on its mind except how neat the Coen brothers are and how stupid or contemptible everybody else is, including everyone in the audience.
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Rotten
Nearly everything in the Coen brothers' latest and biggest film seems like a wizardly but artificial synthesis, leaving a hole in the middle where some emotion and humanity should be.
Todd McCarthy, Variety
Fresh
A minor work, but confirmation of the Coens' position among America's most ambitious, able and exciting film-makers.
Geoff Andrew, Time Out
Fresh
Movies are, after all, about fakery; so is the story of Norville's rise and fall and redemption.
Caryn James, New York Times
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