Fabricated Truth

Review:

After the owner and president of Hudsucker Industries jumps out of a window, the board decides to install an imbecile in the job to devalue the stock so they can buy the majority chair. But the man comes up with a brilliant idea (if you have seen the poster, you can guess what it is) and saves the company - at least for a while. But things never work out the way one expects. The film is a hilariously funny comedy that is somewhat diminished by the need to have a halfway coherent plot with a happy ending, resorting to fantasy to manage to get out of the many holes it dug. Nevertheless, the film is absolutely brilliant and should have firmly established the Coen Brothers as the leading comedy filmmakers of their time.

Random Observations:

The Hudsucker Proxy at the IMDb

John Goodman has a small cameo here and is credited as Karl Mundt, the name of his character in Barton Fink.

Also with a small cameo: the always awesome Steve Buscemi.

The dialogue in this film may be some of the funniest in the history of the medium.

I love how Tim Robbins, playing the lead guy, goes around showing people his circle, claiming that it is a great idea.

Sam Raimi, acclaimed horror (and Spider-Man) director, co-wrote the script with the Coen Brothers, almost ten years before the film was made.

I’m fairly certain that this film will prove to be even better on repeat viewings. It seems like one of the things it has in common with The Big Lebowski, which it precedes in many ways.