Mister Hula Hoop

Titolo originale: The Hudsucker Proxy
Regia: Joel Coen |
Anno: 1994
Origine: United Kingdom | United States of America |
Generi: Commedia Dramma Fantasy
Tag: new year's eve | new york city | journalist | suicide | plan | corruption | undercover | inventor | boss | investigation | industry | money | screwball comedy | board | stocks | 1950s | hula hoop |
Cast: Tim Robbins | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Charles Durning | Paul Newman | Jim True-Frost | John Mahoney | Bill Cobbs | Bruce Campbell | Harry Bugin | John Seitz | Joe Grifasi | Roy Brocksmith | I.M. Hobson | John Scanlan | Jerome Dempsey | John Wylie | Gary Allen | Richard Woods | Peter McPherson | David Byrd | Christopher Darga | Patrick Cranshaw | Robert Weil | Mary Lou Rosato | Ernest Sarracino | Eleanor Glockner | Kathleen Perkins | Joseph Marcus | Peter Gallagher | Noble Willingham | Barbara Ann Grimes | Thom Noble | Steve Buscemi | William Duff-Griffin | Anna Nicole Smith | Pamela Everett | Arthur Bridgers | Sam Raimi | John Cameron | Skipper Duke | Jay Kapner | Jon Polito | Richard Whiting | Linda McCoy | Stan Adams | John Goodman | Joanne Pankow | Mario Todisco | Colin Fickes | Dick Sasso | Jesse Brewer | Philip Loch | Stan Lichtenstein | Todd Alcott | Ace O'Connell | Richard Schiff | Frank Jeffreys | Lou Criscuolo | Michael Earl Reid | Mike Starr | David Hagar | Willie Reale | Harvey Meyer | Tom Toner | David Fawcett | Jeff Still | David Gould | Gil Pearson | Marc Garber | David Massie | Mark Jeffrey Miller | Peter Siragusa | Nelson George | Mike Houlihan | Ed Lillard | Wantland Sandel | James Deuter | Roderick Peeples | Cynthia Baker |

Quando il fondatore e presidente di una potente azienda si butta dal 45° piano, il suo avido vice, smanioso di ottenere il controllo della società, fa nominare direttore un ingenuo neolaureato di campagna. Come il piano di aggiotaggio prevede, le azioni in borsa della Hudsucker precipitano, ma il simpatico idiota lo manda a monte, lanciando sul mercato un cerchio per bambini – l'hula-hoop – con un madornale successo di vendita.

Approfondimenti

Jennifer Jason Leigh won the role of Amy Archer over Ellen Barkin, Nicole Kidman, Winona Ryder, and [...] D
The secretary of the Hudsucker brainstormers (uncredited Mary Beth Peil) is reading throughout the H [...] D
Dr. Hugo Bronfenbrenner, the psychiatrist who evaluated Norville for the board, was likely named aft [...] D
Jack Nicholson was considered for the role of Sidney J. Mussburger. D
The film cast includes three Oscar winners: Tim Robbins, Paul Newman and Thom Noble; and two Oscar n [...] D
Debut of actress Anna Nicole Smith. D
Despondent over business failure, leaping from a great height in a snowstorm, and being visited by a [...] D
Joanne Pankow's debut. D
The deus ex machina towards the end of the movie is actually a god in a machine. D
The line "if a frog had wings, it wouldn't bump its ass a-hoppin'", and the name Hudsucker itself, w [...] D
Paul Newman had been approached about the project in 1984 but turned it down due to not having done [...] D
Peter Gallagher, who plays an old-fashioned crooner in this film, appears here alongside Joe Grifasi [...] D
The death of Waring Hudsucker was inspired by a real-life incident. On February 3, 1975, Eli Black, [...] D
Lots of scenes share a bizarre similarity to Terry Gilliam's Brazil. Both films feature a wimpy hero [...] D
Producer Joel Silver on casting Jennifer Jason Leigh:"She just came in and blew us away," said produ [...] D
Sam Raimi: in the Hula Hoop manufacturing sequence as one of the Hudsucker brainstormers. We don't s [...] D
Trailer narrated by Hal Douglas. D
As of 2020, this is the only PG-rated movie directed by the Coen Brothers. All of their other films [...] D
This is one of the few Coen brothers movies to not be edited by the brothers themselves (under the p [...] D
Paul Newman and Jennifer Jason Leigh also co-starred in Road to Perdition (2002). D
The early scene where the Tim Robbins character has his orientation, where the orientator recites hi [...] D
Both products made by Norville Barnes (the Hula-Hoop and the Frisbee) are products of the Wham-O com [...] D
Clint Eastwood was offered the role of Sidney Mussburger. D
Opening film at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival. D
In the final season of popular Korean War comedy series M*A*S*H (1972), an episode entitled "Who Kne [...] D
The familiar, quick-tempo song heard when the children are making a mad dash to the toy store to buy [...] D
The phrase "junior achievers" in Barnes' appointment book presages the "urban achievers" plaque in t [...] D
Joel Coen, Ethan Coen: [Gunderson] Two consecutive films made by the Coen Brothers feature the chara [...] D
Among the listed jobs that Norville realizes he is underqualified for are: Cat's Meats Man, Goal Ten [...] D
Coen Brothers favorite John Goodman is the Newsreel Announcer, although he is listed in the credits [...] D
The published script is introduced with a fake interview with "producer" Joel Silver (who is uncredi [...] D
The movie reunites Tim Robbins, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Peter Gallagher who all previously appeared [...] D
The main theme music of the film is the uncredited Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia from the ballet S [...] D
Joel Silver wanted Tom Cruise to star as Norville Barnes, but the Coens insisted on Tim Robbins. D