Head Office (1986)
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20% of users liked it
(1,741 ratings)
With a script that is too anemic for the red-blooded actors featured here, this anorexic comedy moves slowly up and down the corporate ladder with the fortunes and misfortunes of several company men. Jack Issel (Judge Reinhold) gets a VIP position at INC in the PR department (business-speak).… More With a script that is too anemic for the red-blooded actors featured here, this anorexic comedy moves slowly up and down the corporate ladder with the fortunes and misfortunes of several company men. Jack Issel (Judge Reinhold) gets a VIP position at INC in the PR department (business-speak). Suddenly the corporation's shady activities come to the fore -- especially when a U.S. plant is set to close for a move south of the border where labor is almost free. Enmeshed in these tangles, Jack is hardly prepared to fall in love with the leading activist against the plant closing -- but he does. Meanwhile, a lot of other subplots quickly dispose of potentially budding villains like Stedman (Danny DeVito) the inside trader -- too bad. DeVito and Don King (appearing as himself) would have made a great team. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Directed By
- Ken Finkleman
- Written By
- Ken Finkleman
- Genres
- Television, Comedy
- In Theaters
- Jan 3, 1986 Wide
- Studio
- HBO Video
Critic Reviews
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Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Practice
Tries to be funny and satirical but misses the mark more often than not.
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Cast
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Judge Reinhold
as Jack Issel
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Eddie Albert
as Helmes
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Jane Seymour
as Jane
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Don King
as Himself
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Rick Moranis
as Gross
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Danny DeVito
as Stedman
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Don Novello
as Sal
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Lori-Nan Engler
as Rachael Helmes
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Wallace Shawn
as Hoover
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Lee Broker
as Mover
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Tom Butler
as Security Monitor
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Merritt Butrick
as John Hudson
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George Coe
as Sen. Issel
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Richard Comar
as TV Reporter
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Nancy Cser
as Dantley's Secretary
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Billy Curtis
as Rev. Lynch
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Dominic Cuzzocrea
as Reporter No. 1
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Louis Di Bianco
as Workman
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Carolyn Dunn
as Yonge's Secretary
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Myra Fried
as Woman Protestor
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John Kapelos
as Gen. Sepulveda
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Eric Keenleyside
as Whale Protestor
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Tex Konig
as Whale Protestor
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Richard Masur
as Max Landsberger
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Annie McAuley
as Max's Girl
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Don McManus
as Albert
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Maxine Miller
as Stedman's Secretary
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Myron Natwick
as TV Anchorman
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Laura Press
as V.P. Secretary
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Diane Robin
as Gross's Secretary
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Elizabeth Shepherd
as Mrs. Issel
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Ralph Small
as Security Monitor
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Shawn Thompson
as Trevor Koback
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Theresa Tova
as Woman Protestor
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Francine Volker
as Whale Protestor
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Phillip Borsos
as General Sepulveda
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Jeremiah S. Chechik
as Hysterical Man
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William B. Davis
as Dean
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Brian Doyle-Murray
as Col. Tolliver
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Ronald C. Frazier
as Nixon
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Ron James
as Mark Rabinovich
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Robin Menken
as Marge
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Michael O'Donoghue
as Dantley
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Bruce Wagner
as Kennedy
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Howard Busgang
as Medic
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Gay Claitman
as Woman Protestor
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Denis Forest
as Rich
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Elizabeth Irwin
as America A.M. Host
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Wally Kanin
as Security Monitor No. 4
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Marvin Karon
as Art
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Derek Keurvost
as Fund Raiser
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Kathy Lasky
as Miss Kline
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Megan Smith
as Woman Protestor
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Barry Thomson
as Security Guard
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Christopher Ward
as Another Executive
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Hrant Alianak
as President Sanchez
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Mike McManus
as Branch Kipp
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Eric Young
as Senate Investigation Reporter
- Ron Frazier
