Synopsis
A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.
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Cast
- Tim RobbinsNorville Barnes
- Jennifer Jason LeighAmy Archer
- Paul NewmanSidney J. Mussburger
- Charles DurningWaring Hudsucker
- John MahoneyChief
- Jim True-FrostBuzz
- Bill CobbsMoses
- Bruce CampbellSmitty
- Harry BuginAloysius
- John SeitzBenny
Recommendations
- 88
ReelViews
With its refined wit and glorious vision, The Hudsucker Proxy is certainly deserving of a wide audience. - 80
Empire
While not to everyone's tastes, this is without doubt one of the most exhilarating films of 1994. - 67
Austin Chronicle
Hudsucker Proxy works more like a fairy tale in which all implausibilities are acceptable and none of it has to play by real-world rules. But it's a fairy tale without any lessons, a satire without any targets. - 63
Christian Science Monitor
The comedy has moments of great humor and terrific visual appeal. It's a solid achievement for Joel Coen, who directed; Ethan Coen, who produced; Sam Raimi, who wrote the screenplay with the brothers. [25 Mar 1994, p.A] - 50
The New York Times
Stylish and witty though it is, The Hudsucker Proxy has its problems, even for Coen fans. But throughout, there are wonderfully rich touches. - 50
Chicago Sun-Times
The movie is that it's all surface and no substance. Not even the slightest attempt is made to suggest that the film takes its own story seriously. Everything is style. The performances seem deliberately angled as satire. - 50
Chicago Reader
At its best it's a free-form fantasy with glitzy, well-executed effects and assorted metaphysical conceits but little feeling for any of the characters apart from derision (with a few touches of racism here and there). - 40
Variety
The Hudsucker Proxy is no doubt one of the most inspired and technically stunning pastiches of old Hollywood pictures ever to come out of the New Hollywood. But a pastiche it remains, as 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.
