Head Office (1986)

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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

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Rating, Runtime: PG-13, 1 hr. 30 min.
Directed By: Ken Finkleman
Written By: Ken Finkleman
Genres: Television, Comedy

In Theaters: Jan 3, 1986 Wide
On DVD: Aug 30, 2005
Studio: HBO Video

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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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AJ V

Although there were many really funny scenes, there were also a bunch of unfunny scenes too, and sometimes the film didn't look like it was edited right or something. Overall, it's pretty good, but it could have been better. At least it has a good cast.

Cast

            Judge Reinhold as Jack Issel

            Eddie Albert as Helmes

            Jane Seymour as Jane

            Don King as Himself

            Rick Moranis as Gross

            Danny DeVito as Stedman

            Don Novello as Sal

            Lori-Nan Engler as Rachael Helmes

            Wallace Shawn as Hoover

            Lee Broker as Mover

            Tom Butler as Security Monitor

            Merritt Butrick as John Hudson

            George Coe as Sen. Issel

            Richard Comar as TV Reporter

            Nancy Cser as Dantley's Secretary

            Billy Curtis as Rev. Lynch

            Dominic Cuzzocrea as Reporter No. 1

            Louis Di Bianco as Workman

            Carolyn Dunn as Yonge's Secretary

            Myra Fried as Woman Protestor

            John Kapelos as Gen. Sepulveda

            Eric Keenleyside as Whale Protestor

            Tex Konig as Whale Protestor

            Richard Masur as Max Landsberger

            Annie McAuley as Max's Girl

            Don McManus as Albert

            Maxine Miller as Stedman's Secretary

            Myron Natwick as TV Anchorman

            Laura Press as V.P. Secretary

            Diane Robin as Gross's Secretary

            Elizabeth Shepherd as Mrs. Issel

            Ralph Small as Security Monitor

            Shawn Thompson as Trevor Koback

            Theresa Tova as Woman Protestor

            Francine Volker as Whale Protestor

            Phillip Borsos as General Sepulveda

            Jeremiah S. Chechik as Hysterical Man

            William B. Davis as Dean

            Brian Doyle-Murray as Col. Tolliver

            Ronald C. Frazier as Nixon

            Ron James as Mark Rabinovich

            Robin Menken as Marge

            Michael O'Donoghue as Dantley

            Bruce Wagner as Kennedy

            Howard Busgang as Medic

            Gay Claitman as Woman Protestor

            Denis Forest as Rich

            Elizabeth Irwin as America A.M. Host

            Wally Kanin as Security Monitor No. 4

            Marvin Karon as Art

            Derek Keurvost as Fund Raiser

            Kathy Lasky as Miss Kline

            Megan Smith as Woman Protestor

            Barry Thomson as Security Guard

            Christopher Ward as Another Executive

            Hrant Alianak as President Sanchez

            Mike McManus as Branch Kipp

            Eric Young as Senate Investigation Reporter

            Ron Frazier
            
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