The Secret of My Succe$s (1987)

I LOVE this movie!
Pretty much my favorite movie of ALL time. Comedy, Romance...Dreamer pursues his dream, achieves it AND gets the "girl"!

So funny that it sounds incredible
Many strange people come from Kansas and all of them are dreamers like Dorothea. And the way to success is paved with yellow bricks. In this film the dream comes true and the means used to do so are standard in business. One share of women, using them and being used by them. One share of good sound logic and practical intelligence. One share of pure righteous and deserved brutality with the higher-ups who are so narrow minded and egotistic that they don't even see their personal interest. One share of a well developed sniffing device known has a nose that is the intuition of a dog but also the best sanity of a man. And you get to the top. Just use the elevator please and don't get it stuck accidentally on purpose because plenty of people are expecting to use it. And you have the secret of success for a comedy that is nothing but an American Psycho in Hell's Kitchen turned into an unrestricted American Dreamo in Heaven's Dining-room. Very good, very fast, very dynamic, quite convincingly absurd and absurdly funny. Just what we need when we look at the stock exchange and think subprime.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines

90's tribute
Who doesn't like Michael J Fox. And in this movie it is an impossibility. Fox plays the newly graduate Brantly from Kansas. Brantly moves to the big city to make it big as an executive and comes up only with a job in the mail room. But with the tenacity that we all love Brantly moves into a corner office, falls in love with a co-worker, has a small affair with his boss' wife (also his Aunt) and turns this company up-side down. Hilarious movie.