The Hudsucker Proxy
A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.
8 October 1949
10 March 1929, New York City, New York, USA
30 November 1959, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
October 12, 1965 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
28 November 1967, Houston, Texas, USA
20 June 1952, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
31 August 1931, Mineola, Texas, USA
23 May 1919, Chicago, Illinois, USA
5 February 1962, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
17 June 1919, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, USA
31 July 1966, Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
3 April 1921, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
16 November 1937, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
9 May 1923, Buffalo, New York, USA
29 December 1950, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
25 May 1928, Homestead, Pennsylvania, USA
November 06, 2007
An impressive technical achievement--the period New York sets are to die for -- and its version of the invention of the hula-hoop is a comic highlight.November 06, 2007
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.January 01, 2000
If something brilliant is happening in The Hudsucker Proxy -- and you're meant to believe that it is -- it's apparent only to Ethan and Joel Coen.November 30, 2006
Bizarre, yet typical Coen comedy. Very dark and cartoonish.February 01, 2014
Few of the Coen Brothers' films spike the vein of pure pleasure as easily. It's an irresistibly loquacious, unpredictably riotous comedy that dares you to keep up with its daffiness and doesn't give a damn whether you get left behind.November 06, 2007
A visually arresting but emotionally uninvolving dark comedy.November 06, 2007
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.August 04, 2010
A pastiche of a movie that lacks distinct identity and authenticity, made up of borrowed parts from scrwball comedies Frank Capra, Howard Hawks, and Preston Sturges.January 15, 2005
[The Coens'] inventive style and the over-the-top performances from Robbins and Newman make this a feast for the eyes and a barrel of laughs.May 20, 2003
Movies are, after all, about fakery; so is the story of Norville's rise and fall and redemption.April 03, 2005
Criminally overlooked and sinfully wonderful Coen brothers comedy. Jennifer Jason Leigh is just flawless here.June 24, 2006
A minor work, but confirmation of the Coens' position among America's most ambitious, able and exciting film-makers.