Head Office (1985)

Directed by

Ken Finkleman

Genre

comedy film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 31m

Rated

PG-13

Rating

5.4 of 10 from 34 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A business school graduate accidentally gets a job at a big corporation. He learns ethics from sleazy mentors while trying to date the CEO's daughter. The company tries to use him for a bribery scheme, but things go wrong.

satiricalcynicaldarkly comicfast-pacedabsurdcorporatedeadpanfunny

What happens

Head Office is a 1985 American satirical black comedy film, produced by HBO Pictures in association with Silver Screen Partners. It stars Judge Reinhold, Eddie Albert, Lori-Nan Engler, Jane Seymour, Richard Masur, Michael O'Donoghue, Ron Frazier, and Merritt Butrick and was directed and written by Ken Finkleman. It is also the second film to be composed by James Newton Howard. The film is primarily set in Chicago, in the offices of a large corporation. A recent business school graduate is hired, despite his lack of experience and skill. His new mentors provide him with lessons on cheating and blackmail, while his female supervisor teaches him that one can use seduction to get promoted. The young man temporarily earns the favor of the CEO (who wants to close a deal with the boy's father), but he is more interested in courting the CEO's daughter. The young man earns a reputation for honesty by leaking information about the company's actual motivations to the press. The CEO has the idea to use the young man in a political bribery scheme, but the plot backfires. The CEO is forced to resign, in favor of his daughter and his prospective son-in-law. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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