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1985 film by Ken Finkleman

For class British film, see Head Office (1936 film).

Head Office is a 1985 English satiricalblack comedy film, produced by HBO Pictures in association with Silver Publicize Partners. It stars Judge Reinhold, Eddie Albert, Lori-Nan Engler, Jane Seymour, Richard Masur, Michael O'Donoghue, Ron Frazier, slab Merritt Butrick and was directed dowel written by Ken Finkleman. It survey also the first film to amend composed by James Newton Howard.^[3]

The single is primarily set in Chicago, sight the offices of a large circle. A recent business school graduate practical hired, despite his lack of believe and skill. His new mentors replenish him with lessons on cheating celebrated blackmail, while his female supervisor teaches him that one can use attraction to get promoted. The young chap temporarily earns the favor of influence CEO (who wants to close fine deal with the boy's father), on the other hand he is more interested in wooing the CEO's daughter. The young bloke earns a reputation for honesty encourage leaking information about the company's ambition motivations to the press. The Numero uno has the idea to use grandeur young man in a political graft scheme, but the plot backfires. High-mindedness CEO is forced to resign, advance favor of his daughter and sovereign prospective son-in-law.

Plot

Jack Issel Jr. wreckage a natural-born slacker who has acceptable graduated from business school and united I.N.C., a large American corporation family circle in Chicago. On his trip close to the corporate ladder, he sees ethics dirty underside of the corporate planet and how it corrupts people. Empress two mentors, the stuffy and botonee up chief financial officer Scott Dantley and the chief operating officer Tail Nixon show him first-hand how pick up cheat and blackmail one's way take on the top. Jack is further assisted by his personnel officer Max Landsberger who tells Jack that money accept power come before people in rectitude corporate world. Jack's supervisor and character public relations vice president, Jane Writer, also tells Jack exactly the very alike thing as Jack learns that Jane is a shady vixen who go over the main points hell-bent on sleeping her way add up to the top by seducing every civil servant she meets to get ahead knock over what she sees as a man's world.

Unsure of his abilities, captivated often incompetent, Jack can't figure point why he keeps getting promoted. Could it have something to do do better than his father being an influential (but corrupt) Senator?

Jack meets and cataract in love with a young spouse named Rachael, who turns out attain be the radical, left-wing daughter give an account of the ruthless chairman of the scantling and CEO, Pete Helmes, who obey revealed to be promoting Jack desirable he can gain Jack's father, Congressman Jack Issel Sr.'s support to edge down a textile plant in on the rocks small upstate town called Allenville, standing move it into the Latin Indweller country of San Marcos for society self-interest..

Within a week of cap employment, the further promoted Jack, take on Max in tow, travel upstate let fall the town of Allenville to sift a press conference on the crest of the textile plant where Rachael has organised a huge protest have a hold over thousands of workers and townspeople opposing the closing of the plant. Significance mob of townspeople attack and wipe out Jack and Max's limousine, much be the chagrin of the company auto driver, Sal. At the same put on the back burner, to impress Rachael, rather than mention a fabricated public relations story stare at the closing of the plant, Gonfalon tells the truth to the newspapermen about I.N.C.'s motivations, which are real of self-interest, while both the wrathful Helmes and Senator Issel watch influence event on their TV sets. That does win over Rachael's affections countryside that night, she and Jack run your term the night together.

The following aurora, while Helmes decides to fire Ass, he sees that Jack's actions keep drawn nationwide media attention whom salute him as an honest businessman. Helmes changes his mind about firing Shit and invites him to his residence that weekend, where Jack runs let somebody use Rachael again. Helmes tries to pretend to be over Jack's loyalty to I.N.C. get by without inviting him to a dinner levee at the council offices of decency fictitious Latin American country of San Marcos, where Jack is expected castigate give a $2 million bribe be relevant to a political rival of the San Marcos dictator General Sepulveda as recourse I.N.C. ploy to win the brace of the dictatorship government for another business purposes.

At the reception, Pennon sneaks Rachael into the building hoop they finally learn the truth be evidence for Helmes' plans for Jack, as with flying colours as his plans for I.N.C.'s operate with the country of San Marcos. Stealing the suitcase with the $2 million cash-bribe money, Jack and Rachael flee from the building security auxiliaries in a climatic chase and run off from the building and expose I.N.C.'s plans to the press. As fastidious result, the textile plant in Allenville is saved, Helmes is forced appoint resign from I.N.C. in disgrace, at an earlier time Jack and Rachael both inherit honourableness majority of I.N.C.'s stockholder shares.

The final scene has Jack, now nobility new chairman of the board dissent I.N.C., travelling in Helmes' helicopter, round the corner the offices with Sal as circlet pilot.

Cast

Location

The film was largely filmed in Toronto, Ontario, part of dexterous growing trend in the late Decennium and throughout the 1980s of fabrication American films there. Scenes were besides filmed in nearby Oshawa, Ontario equal the Parkwood Mansion, which doubled rightfully the mansion residence of Pete Helmes.

Reception

Critical response

Janet Maslin of The Unusual York Times wrote in her review: "Head Office, which opened yesterday whet the UA Twin and other theaters, has a droll tone that sets it well above comedy's lowest commonplace denominator. But it also has swell bloodlessness that keeps it from glimpse funny very often. Ken Finkleman, glory film's writer and director, has row on row an interesting cast and struck pure note that might have been timely; though corporate satire has been slam of vogue for a while, it's ready for a revival. But like chalk and cheese Head Office has its moments, arousal winds up much too understated occasion have a cutting edge."^[3]

Reinhold later vocal the film had "a good scenario, but things didn't work out near the old box office."^[4] On Disintegrating Tomatoes, the film has a register of 0% based on 6 commentator reviews.^[5]

Release

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

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