Director: Joel Coen
Writer: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Studio: PolyGram Filmed Entertainment
Release Date: 01/1994
Countries: Germany, UK, USA
Runtime: 111 min
Awards: 2 wins & 3 nominations
Also Known as: Hudsucker - Der große Sprung (Germany)
Description: The Coen brothers deliver a screwball comedy gem about mail clerk Norville Barnes, (Tim Robbins) who falls into good -- or bad? -- luck when he becomes the CEO of a successful business. The evil Sidney J. Mussberger (Paul Newman) chooses Barnes so he and the other board directors can make a fortune on the falling stock price. Meanwhile, reporter Amy Archer (Jennifer Jason Leigh) befriends Norville in hopes of landing a big scoop.
Actors
| Paul Newman | Sidney J. Mussburger |
| John Goodman | |
| Bruce Campbell | Smitty |
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| Paul Newman | Sidney J. Mussburger |
| Anna Nicole Smith | |
| Tim Robbins | Norville Barnes |
| Bill Cobbs | Moses |
| Charles Durning | Waring Hudsucker |
| Gary Allen | Board Member |
| Harry Bugin | Aloysius |
| I.M. Hobson | Board Member |
| Jennifer Jason Leigh | Amy Archer |
| Jim True-Frost | Buzz (as Jim True) |
| Joe Grifasi | Lou |
| John Mahoney | Chief |
| John Seitz | Benny |
| John Wylie | Board Member |
| Roy Brocksmith | Board Member |
