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The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)

★ 7.1 · 1,179 ratings on TMDB

They took him for a fall guy... but he threw them for a hoop.

The Hudsucker Proxy poster★ 7.1

A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.

DirectorJoel Coen
CastBill Cobbs, Bruce Campbell, Charles Durning, Harry Bugin, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jim True-Frost
GenresComedy, Drama, Fantasy
The emergence reading

The Hudsucker Proxy keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing power, corruption, media, consumerism, identity.

zero-distanceUSpowercorruptionmediaconsumerismidentity
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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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