Hudsucker - The Big Leap

Movie
German title	Hudsucker - The Big Leap
Original title	The Hudsucker Proxy
Country of production	United Kingdom , Germany , USA
original language	English
Publishing year	1994
length	111 minutes
Age rating	FSK 6
Rod
Director	Ethan and Joel Coen
script	Joel and Ethan Coen, Sam Raimi
production	Ethan Coen
music	Carter Burwell
camera	Roger Deakins
cut	Thom Noble
occupation
Tim Robbins : Norville Barnes Jennifer Jason Leigh : Amy Archer Paul Newman : Sidney J. Mussburger Charles Durning : Waring Hudsucker John Mahoney : Editor-in-Chief of the Manhattan Argus Jim True-Frost : Buzz Bill Cobbs : Moses Anna Nicole Smith : Za-Za Bruce Campbell : Smitty, Argus Reporter Harry Bugin : Aloysius, Mussburg's spy John Seitz : Bennie the taxi driver Patrick Cranshaw : Former Sorter Noble Willingham : Zebulon Cardoza Peter Gallagher : Vic Tenetta, party singer Steve Buscemi : Beatnik barman at Ann's 440 Sam Raimi : Brainstormers Jon Polito : Mr. Bumstead John Goodman : Rockwell Newsreel Announcer Richard Schiff : Mailroom Screamer Roy Brocksmith : Board member

Hudsucker - The Big Leap (Original title: The Hudsucker Proxy ) is an American film by the brothers Ethan and Joel Coen , who were responsible for the script as well as the direction. Besides Tim Robbins playing Jennifer Jason Leigh and Paul Newman in the lead roles. The film was released in 1994.

action

The film tells the story of Norville Barnes, a naive, lovable village idiot from Muncie, Indiana who is made president of a multinational corporation.

When the company's share price reached dizzying heights, the company's founder and CEO Waring Hudsucker took his own life by jumping through the closed window on the 44th floor of the company building. Thereupon the other board members decide to usurp the majority of the shares themselves. As a measure to push course first, they make Barnes of the Postal Department their new chairman. However, he thwarted their plans when he invented the hula hoop , which became a bestseller. With his success, his personality also changes - he becomes an arrogant man of power and thus gambled away his sympathies in public and with the ambitious journalist Amy Archer.

In order to get rid of him for good, board member Sidney Mussburger has him declared crazy and has him admitted to a mental hospital. Barnes then wants - like his predecessor - to throw himself from the Hudsucker building, but decides differently at the last second. But he stumbles and falls, but is saved by the mysterious Moses, who stops the building's clock and with it the time. While the fall is slowed down and Barnes "hangs" in the air, the late Waring Hudsucker appears to him in the form of an angel. He explains to him that in his last letter he bequeathed his fortune and company to his successor.

Barnes is again the owner of the company. He takes revenge on Mussburger and has him brought to the sanatorium while he reconciles with Amy and a little later invents the Frisbee .

success

The film had 25 million US dollars , the largest ever budget of a Coen film. It was not until the comedy An (im) possible hardship case from 2003 had a larger budget of 60 million US dollars.

At the US box office, however, the film proved to be a flop and grossed less than $ 3 million there.

Awards

Hudsucker - The Big Leap was nominated for the Palme d'Or best film at the Cannes Film Festival , but it went to Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction .

Reviews

“A highly stylized plagiarism of classic Hollywood comedies, as perfect as it is puppet-like, as bizarre as it is impersonal. After all: a festival for film buffs who want to tick off their knowledge of film history. "

- Lexicon of international film

Web links

• Hudsucker - The big jump in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Hudsucker - The big jump at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
• Side to Hudsucker - The big jump (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hudsucker - The Great Leap. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .