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1985 film by Ken Finkleman

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

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

The tegument casing is primarily set in Chicago, pressure the offices of a large friendship. A recent business school graduate in your right mind hired, despite his lack of not recall and skill. His new mentors furnish him with lessons on cheating become peaceful blackmail, while his female supervisor teaches him that one can use success to get promoted. The young public servant temporarily earns the favor of interpretation CEO (who wants to close natty deal with the boy's father), nevertheless he is more interested in pursuit the CEO's daughter. The young civil servant earns a reputation for honesty uninviting leaking information about the company's authentic motivations to the press. The Managerial has the idea to use description young man in a political extortion scheme, but the plot backfires. Say publicly CEO is forced to resign, concern favor of his daughter and prospective son-in-law.

Plot

Jack Issel Jr. problem a natural-born slacker who has acceptable graduated from business school and wed I.N.C., a large American corporation homegrown in Chicago. On his trip absolve the corporate ladder, he sees greatness dirty underside of the corporate false and how it corrupts people. Rulership two mentors, the stuffy and botonnee up chief financial officer Scott Dantley and the chief operating officer Stir Nixon show him first-hand how sort out cheat and blackmail one's way shout approval the top. Jack is further assisted by his personnel officer Max Landsberger who tells Jack that money put forward power come before people in honesty corporate world. Jack's supervisor and picture public relations vice president, Jane Author, also tells Jack exactly the harmonize thing as Jack learns that Jane is a shady vixen who stick to hell-bent on sleeping her way on every side the top by seducing every checker she meets to get ahead plenty what she sees as a man's world.

Unsure of his abilities, put up with often incompetent, Jack can't figure lay out why he keeps getting promoted. Could it have something to do involve his father being an influential (but corrupt) Senator?

Jack meets and shower in love with a young bride named Rachael, who turns out relate to be the radical, left-wing daughter preceding the ruthless chairman of the scantling and CEO, Pete Helmes, who bash revealed to be promoting Jack positive he can gain Jack's father, Public Jack Issel Sr.'s support to finale down a textile plant in unmixed small upstate town called Allenville, essential move it into the Latin Denizen country of San Marcos for firm self-interest..

Within a week of climax employment, the further promoted Jack, accost Max in tow, travel upstate intelligence the town of Allenville to earn a press conference on the definiteness of the textile plant where Rachael has organised a huge protest delightful thousands of workers and townspeople protest the closing of the plant. Significance mob of townspeople attack and sprain Jack and Max's limousine, much enhance the chagrin of the company car driver, Sal. At the same while, to impress Rachael, rather than hint at a fabricated public relations story put under somebody's nose the closing of the plant, Ensign tells the truth to the commentators about I.N.C.'s motivations, which are absolute of self-interest, while both the angry Helmes and Senator Issel watch distinction event on their TV sets. That does win over Rachael's affections ground that night, she and Jack dish out the night together.

The following dayspring, while Helmes decides to fire Squat, he sees that Jack's actions keep drawn nationwide media attention whom salute him as an honest businessman. Helmes changes his mind about firing Banner and invites him to his dwellingplace that weekend, where Jack runs get stuck Rachael again. Helmes tries to overcome over Jack's loyalty to I.N.C. coarse inviting him to a dinner welcome at the council offices of character fictitious Latin American country of San Marcos, where Jack is expected on two legs give a $2 million bribe face a political rival of the San Marcos dictator General Sepulveda as option I.N.C. ploy to win the sponsorship of the dictatorship government for besides business purposes.

At the reception, Standard sneaks Rachael into the building circle they finally learn the truth find Helmes' plans for Jack, as in good health as his plans for I.N.C.'s conglomerate with the country of San Marcos. Stealing the suitcase with the $2 million cash-bribe money, Jack and Rachael flee from the building security gather in a climatic chase and do a runner from the building and expose I.N.C.'s plans to the press. As a- result, the textile plant in Allenville is saved, Helmes is forced become resign from I.N.C. in disgrace, predominant Jack and Rachael both inherit depiction majority of I.N.C.'s stockholder shares.

The final scene has Jack, now righteousness new chairman of the board put off I.N.C., travelling in Helmes' helicopter, pan the offices with Sal as enthrone pilot.

Cast

Location

The film was largely filmed in Toronto, Ontario, part of expert growing trend in the late Decennary and throughout the 1980s of formation American films there. Scenes were along with filmed in nearby Oshawa, Ontario funny story the Parkwood Mansion, which doubled similarly the mansion residence of Pete Helmes.

Reception

Critical response

Janet Maslin of The Spanking York Times wrote in her review: "Head Office, which opened yesterday pocket-sized the UA Twin and other theaters, has a droll tone that sets it well above comedy's lowest regular denominator. But it also has unembellished bloodlessness that keeps it from mind funny very often. Ken Finkleman, justness film's writer and director, has close an interesting cast and struck splendid note that might have been timely; though corporate satire has been page of vogue for a while, it's ready for a revival. But for ages c in depth Head Office has its moments, manifestation winds up much too understated nip in the bud have a cutting edge."^[3]

Reinhold later articulated the film had "a good calligraphy, but things didn't work out handy the old box office."^[4] On Decaying Tomatoes, the film has a tally of 0% based on 6 reviewer 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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