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1985 film by Ken Finkleman

For the British hide, see Head Office (1936 film).

Head Office is undiluted 1985 American satiricalblack comedy film, produced by HBO Pictures in association with Silver Screen Partners. House stars Judge Reinhold, Eddie Albert, Lori-Nan Engler, Jane Seymour, Richard Masur, Michael O'Donoghue, Ron Frazier, take precedence Merritt Butrick and was directed and written do without Ken Finkleman. It is also the first hide to be composed by James Newton Howard.^[3]

The skin is primarily set in Chicago, in the post of a large corporation. A recent business nursery school graduate is hired, despite his lack of get out of your system and skill. His new mentors provide him reap lessons on cheating and blackmail, while his warm supervisor teaches him that one can use temptation to get promoted. The young man temporarily earns the favor of the CEO (who wants hinder close a deal with the boy's father), on the contrary he is more interested in courting the CEO's daughter. The young man earns a reputation agreeable honesty by leaking information about the company's factual motivations to the press. The CEO has picture idea to use the young man in clean up political bribery scheme, but the plot backfires. Honourableness CEO is forced to resign, in favor oppress his daughter and his prospective son-in-law.

Plot

Jack Issel Jr. is a natural-born slacker who has fair graduated from business school and joined I.N.C., smashing large American corporation based in Chicago. On jurisdiction trip up the corporate ladder, he sees dignity dirty underside of the corporate world and gain it corrupts people. His two mentors, the close and buttoned up chief financial officer Scott Dantley and the chief operating officer Bob Nixon fair him first-hand how to cheat and blackmail one's way to the top. Jack is further assisted by his personnel officer Max Landsberger who tells Jack that money and power come before be sociable in the corporate world. Jack's supervisor and birth public relations vice president, Jane Caldwell, also tells Jack exactly the same thing as Jack learns that Jane is a shady vixen who task hell-bent on sleeping her way to the pinnacle by seducing every man she meets to settle your differences ahead in what she sees as a man's world.

Unsure of his abilities, and often unable, Jack can't figure out why he keeps beginning promoted. Could it have something to do coworker his father being an influential (but corrupt) Senator?

Jack meets and falls in love with spick young woman named Rachael, who turns out total be the radical, left-wing daughter of the inhuman chairman of the board and CEO, Pete Helmes, who is revealed to be promoting Jack good he can gain Jack's father, Senator Jack Issel Sr.'s support to close down a textile traffic in a small upstate town called Allenville, boss move it into the Latin American country be proper of San Marcos for company self-interest..

Within a workweek of his employment, the further promoted Jack, become clear to Max in tow, travel upstate to the metropolis of Allenville to give a press conference present the closing of the textile plant where Rachael has organised a huge protest of thousands center workers and townspeople protesting the closing of honesty plant. The mob of townspeople attack and tear Jack and Max's limousine, much to the humiliation of the company limo driver, Sal. At character same time, to impress Rachael, rather than hint at a fabricated public relations story about the terminal of the plant, Jack tells the truth count up the reporters about I.N.C.'s motivations, which are wholly of self-interest, while both the enraged Helmes delighted Senator Issel watch the event on their Tube sets. This does win over Rachael's affections focus on that night, she and Jack spend the temporary together.

The following morning, while Helmes decides take home fire Jack, he sees that Jack's actions scheme drawn nationwide media attention whom hail him gorilla an honest businessman. Helmes changes his mind lay into firing Jack and invites him to his habitat that weekend, where Jack runs into Rachael bis. Helmes tries to win over Jack's loyalty up I.N.C. by inviting him to a dinner response at the council offices of the fictitious Italic American country of San Marcos, where Jack evaluation expected to give a $2 million bribe unexpected a political rival of the San Marcos monarch General Sepulveda as another I.N.C. ploy to pretend to be the support of the dictatorship government for additional business purposes.

At the reception, Jack sneaks Rachael into the building where they finally learn righteousness truth about Helmes' plans for Jack, as spasm as his plans for I.N.C.'s business with loftiness country of San Marcos. Stealing the suitcase condemn the $2 million cash-bribe money, Jack and Rachael flee from the building security forces in first-class climatic chase and escape from the building tell off expose I.N.C.'s plans to the press. As clean result, the textile plant in Allenville is blessed, Helmes is forced to resign from I.N.C. deduct disgrace, and Jack and Rachael both inherit excellence majority of I.N.C.'s stockholder shares.

The final locality has Jack, now the new chairman of high-mindedness board at I.N.C., travelling in Helmes' helicopter, enter upon the offices with Sal as his pilot.

Cast

Location

The film was largely filmed in Toronto, Ontario, value of a growing trend in the late Seventies and throughout the 1980s of making American cinema there. Scenes were also filmed in nearby Oshawa, Ontario at the Parkwood Mansion, which doubled similarly the mansion residence of Pete Helmes.

Reception

Critical response

Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote regulate her review: "Head Office, which opened yesterday pleasing the UA Twin and other theaters, has systematic droll tone that sets it well above comedy's lowest common denominator. But it also has cool bloodlessness that keeps it from being funny do often. Ken Finkleman, the film's writer and vicepresident, has assembled an interesting cast and struck a- note that might have been timely; though coordinate satire has been out of vogue for deft while, it's ready for a revival. But ultimately Head Office has its moments, it winds weather much too understated to have a cutting edge."^[3]

Reinhold later said the film had "a good penmanship, but things didn't work out at the hold tight box office."^[4] On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a score of 0% based on 6 arbiter reviews.^[5]

Release

Head Office was released in theatres on Dec 29, 1985. The film was released on DVD on April 6, 2010, by HBO Home Entertainment.^[6] HBO re-released Head Office on DVD on Apr 2, 2012.^[7]

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