The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)

Tuesday, May 19 at 4:45pm in C607

It's comedy time again.

As film directors, the Coen brothers are masters of creating films about different periods of time in U.S.A. history; full of offbeat people and places.

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This film is set in New York in the late 1950's.

Wall Street is in boom mode following World War 2.

Norville Barnes rises from his graduate job in the mailroom to Hudsucker Corporation president within days.

Amy Archer is a newspaper reporter who tricks Norville into revealing Hudsucker company secrets.

Watch Barnes go through an hilarious rollercoaster ride of ups and downs that typify corporate business in New York.