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Lazy, womanizing Jack gets employed at the NYC HQ of the multinational conglomerate, INC. Crazy chaos, promotions, firings, suicides etc. seem to be the way of the day.Lazy, womanizing Jack gets employed at the NYC HQ of the multinational conglomerate, INC. Crazy chaos, promotions, firings, suicides etc. seem to be the way of the day.Lazy, womanizing Jack gets employed at the NYC HQ of the multinational conglomerate, INC. Crazy chaos, promotions, firings, suicides etc. seem to be the way of the day.
Brian Doyle-Murray
- Colonel Tolliver
- (as Brian Doyle Murray)
- Director
- Writer
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- TriviaThis is the only time in his career that Rick Moranis (Howard Gross) plays a character that gets killed off.
- Goofs[25:38]When Jack is first shown his new office in Complaints, the name plate by his door appears and disappears between shots.
- Quotes
Max Landsberger: [14:14] Lesson No.1: beware of the furniture movers. When the axe falls, they're usually the first to know. People see them coming and they shit.
- Alternate versionsThe TV network version has various additional scenes which include:
- Jack walking across a basketball court and shooting a basket with some player friends of his while on his way to his first day at INC.
- Additional bit of dialog between Helms and General Toliver in the helicopter.
- A scene of Jack buying a Rolling Stones magazine at a corner news stand and the first introduction Robert Hoover and Al Kennedy bickering about Helms.
- Additional dialog between Jack and Jane in her office telling him that "information is power."
- Another bit of dialog where Kennedy discuses INC's plans for a proxy fight over a company called West Oil during the board meeting in which Helms disagrees.
- Helms detailing INC's strengths in another bit while discussing an unpaid phone bill over a client.
- Kennedy telling Jane about him quitting INC and his plan for asking Helms to join a Los Angeles office during the board meeting scene with the little German-speaking man.
- Additional scene of Jack first arriving at Helms' house and a frantic Kennedy trying to talk to Helms during his morning jog around his back garden about an Los Angeles job and being set upon by a guard dog as well as treading across a reflecting pond to keep up with him.
- ConnectionsReferenced in The Big Kahuna (1999)
- SoundtracksCry On Your Own Shoulder
Performed by General Public
Written by General Public
Produced by General Public and Greg Ladanyi
Courtesy of I.R.S. Records and Virgin Records
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Tragically unfunny comedy
The idea of a naive young man finding himself in the cutthroat world of big business is far from an original idea for a movie. But I think it could work again as long as enough energy and originality was thrown in. Sadly, this time around it's pretty much a complete misfire. What went wrong? Well, plenty. While Judge Reinhold has proved to be appealing and amusing in other movies, he seems out of his league here. He gives a very lifeless performance. In fact, all the performances in the movie are sorely lacking energy save for Danny De Vito and Rick Moranis - and those two actors only have cameo roles! The lack of vitality by the cast is probably due to writer/director Ken Finkleman. His direction is dull and lifeless, with a cold heart feeling to every scene. And his screenplay is full of obvious and unfunny attempts at humor, and also has the problem that there's hardly anything in the way of a plot to be found. It's no wonder this movie didn't do well in theaters and has been pretty much forgotten more than 25 years later.
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- Budget
- $9,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $3,393,807
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $1,937,934
- Jan 5, 1986
- Gross worldwide
- $3,393,807
- Runtime1 hour 30 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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