An unconventional period piece with just enough creativity to mask its peculiarity, The Hudsucker Proxy makes for an interesting watch. The sets and costumes beautifully depict 1950s New York, and the exaggerated performances and fast dialogue are reminiscent of movies of that era. Tim Robbins gives it his all, but the lines between whimsical and absurd are contanstly crossed.

Do I like it? Sure, sure.

A decent period drama. Pretty uninteresting and predictable though. Bruce Campbell is in it, so there's that going for it.

I didn't expect to like this as much as I did, The Hudsucker Proxy is one of my favorites that I've seen from the Coen Brothers. This is visually stunning, and it's absolutely hilarious due to a great performance from Tim Robbins. The Hudsucker Proxy is a great time and perfect for if you need a good laugh.

Personally I think it's my favourite Coen Bros film.

I didn’t understand what the Coens were going for until Jennifer Jason Leigh’s character came in like a wrecking ball.

One of the Coen's best movies. They were given carte blanche and delivered a hilarious and truly oddball throwback. A real shame no one in the 90s appreciated what they were doing here. Robbins, Jason Leigh and the whole cast are just perfect in this.

I really enjoyed this screwball comedy. Tim Robbins and Jennifer Jason Leigh were a delight. Great cast and writing. Tim Treakle

I watched this on DVD recently. The satirical commentary this film makes about capitalism in western society is delightfully insightful. I found many of the scenes to be extrelely witty and an absolute pleasure to watch. The force of cynicism is almost overpowering throughout, which makes it extremely entertaining. It's not perfect thought, and between the frequent moments of comedic genius there are a few transitionsl scenes to endure, but these are mostly of little consequence. Over all it's really good, and I have no problems recommending it.

The Coen brothers make the story of the hula hoop and big business weird and creative. But Tim Robbins and Jason-Leigh are given such an odd piece that I couldn't get into it.

So much fun. An all-time favourite.

One of the most underrated films of all time. You either Love it or Hate it and this film is a nostalgic fun film full of laughs and drama. It should have been an Epic Classic but has been totally forgotten by most.

Great movie. Homage to Frank Capra. Great cast. Jennifer Jason Leigh's tribute to Barbara Stanwyck is marvelous.

The Coen Brothers have had a good track record of making films that receive reasonably good critical reviews and make a good return at the box office. The Hudsucker Proxy was not one of those movies. While the film has been a number of years in the making, suggesting a project close to the heart of the Coens, it bombed on its release, and critics were scathing. ime has been kinder to the film, and it can now be seen as their most underestimated work, a parable about the cut-throat world of modern capitalism wrapped in a fairy tale story that recalls the style of Frank Capra and Preston Sturges. Indeed the beginning and ending of the story carry an echo of Capra's film, Meet John Doe, another under-rated movie. Both movies begin with a man on top of a building on a snowy New Year's Eve, who is contemplating suicide. Both films leave the possibility of salvation to as late a moment as possible, with Hudsucker pushing the moment of its hero's last chance of redemption to a much later point than Joe Doe. n The Hudsucker Proxy, the suicidal man is Norville Barnes (Tim Robbins). "How'd he get so high? And why's he feeling so low?" asks Moses (Bill Cobbs). From this point onwards, the film offers a flashback to fill us in on the rise and fall of Norville Barnes. It seems unlikely at first that this absurd little man could ever become important enough to be the subject of a suicide attempt that would have serious implications for a large business. Norville's rise is caused by another man's fall – a literal one. In the middle of a board meeting about the huge profits being made by the company, its president, Waring Hudsucker (Charles Durning) take the opportunity to throw himself through the window and fall 44 floors (not counting the mezzanine) to his death. The Board appoints Norville to run the company, expecting him to fail so they can hoover up the depressed shares. Instead Norville has his own project. He has invented the hula hoop. This leads to the film's most exciting montage, and the one that won me over to loving the film. One evening I switched channels on my 온라인카지노추천, and caught The Hudsucker Proxy at this point. I was instantly captivated by the wit and intelligence of the scene, and it is still the best part of the movie for me. After such an introduction, I can only disappoint readers who have not seen The Hudsucker Proxy. It is another witty and exciting montage showing the decline and rise in fortunes of Norville's pet project. The film rapidly cuts between different scenes showing the making and marketing of the hula hoop. Hoops are mass-produced. Execs argue over the price. Marketing employees struggle to find a name for the new product while their secretary reads War and Peace. By the time they come up with the name, she has begun Anna Karenina. Finally the hula hoop is sold on the streets, but the toy shop remains empty. Price sticker is stamped over price sticker after price sticker, showing the cost going down, as children fail to buy Norville's beloved product. The ticker tape showing Hudsucker share values offers no comfort to Norville or Amy. The shopkeeper throws away a pile of hula hoops, which he cannot even give away for free. The camera follows the path of one discarded hula hoop as it rolls across streets and finally lands at a little boy's feet. He takes it up, and is soon proficient in his use of the hoop. The other children stare at him in awe. Suddenly there is a mad charge back to the toy shop. The price starts going up again, and Norville and Amy have something to smile about when they read the share values. The hula hoop acts as the perfect symbol for the action in The Hudsucker Proxy. Circular imagery abounds – the hula hoop, a Frisbee, the coffee ring on Norville's newspaper, the clock at the top of Hudsucker Industries that is presided over by old Moses, and a halo on the head of an angel. When Norville explains his view of karma to Amy, he likens it to a circle: "A great wheel that gives us all what we deserve". Indeed the plot is circular, showing Norville's rise, fall and rise again. The film ends in the same place that it begun. The ambiguity is reflected in the Hudsucker slogan, "The future is now". Time dominates the lives of the characters. The workers at the bottom of the building must clock in every day. Characters reflect on their past behaviour, and feel that they have betrayed their old values. The future is uncertain, hung on the cusp between one year and another (the final scene takes place on New Year's Eve). Mussburger's office is placed close to the clock which dominates much of the film. Moses keeps the clock maintained, and may even use it to change the future when it suits him. Time can be frozen, but not reversed. This is a fairy tale, but one with images that would be scary if the tone of the film was not so tongue-in-cheek. Hudsucker employees work in an intimidatingly large building that looks like something out of Fritz Lang's Metropolis. The angular lines of the building recall Fascist architecture. Rapacious employers work in comfort at the top, and poor employees are exploited and overworked at the bottom. However even those at the top are not protected from falling, literally or figuratively. Three characters contemplate suicide. On New Year's Eve, the Board are wearing party hats while they listen to the news of Norville's fall. The hats make them seem like Klan members. Meanwhile crowds chase the disgraced Norville in a manner that recalls the ending of Invasion of the Body Snatchers. Essentially though this is escapist fantasy. The action is set in a scale model version of old New York that looks utterly fake and romanticised. Khachaturian's music adds excitement and humour to the action. The dialogue contains rhythmical repetitions: "Sure! Sure!" "Not counting the mezzanine." Scene transitions are abrupt and amusing. My favourite is when a woman steps in front of the camera and shushes us ahead of a board meeting. The Hudsucker Proxy may be a triumph of style over substance, but the style is certainly amazing, and it does not come at the expense of a good story. Do we really care about the characters? Yes, just enough to want to see Norville and Amy triumph over their enemies. There is no deep message here, but the film is undeniably good-hearted and funny. I wrote a longer appreciation of The Hudsucker Proxy on my blog page if you would like to read more: https://themoviescreenscene.wordpress.com/2022/01/13/the-hudsucker-proxy-1994/

Beautiful, brilliant and profound. Wonderful in every way.

I didn't buy Robbins's performance which dragged it all down.

I think this was the first Coen Brothers film I saw; I certainly have a strong memory of seeing it one holiday from Uni with my mate Chris at the wonderful Filmhouse cinema in Edinburgh. Tim Robbins is ideal in the lead role, and this stands as one of the most whimsical and outright quirky of their films. It's unquestionably funny and visually clever, but I do find the tone starts to wear and grate somewhat. But it's also hard to resist and blessed with a warm heart alongside the darker shades.

Beautifully crafted story-telling, visually stunning, and interesting dialogue and narration - what else do you need in a movie? (I guess having the Coen brothers involved helps!) This is an original and will probably throw off people more used to formulaic scripts but if you like movies you'll see it for what it is, a brilliant piece of cinematic work. Oh yeah, and Paul Newman.

Citizen Kane for kids! The Hudsucker Proxy is ridiculous and chaotic in the best ways possible. An extremely underrated Coens flick, this is them giving into their wackiest impulses. In a perfect world, it would be an American classic. Leave it up to cinema's favorite brothers to get ME to like a Jennifer Jason Leigh performance! I never thought the day would come, but she's genuinely amazing in this movie.

"The Hudsucker Proxy" may be several orders of magnitude below the Coen Brothers' best efforts, but it's nowhere near deserving of the thrashing the fates gave it back in 1994. This, at the very least, is a brilliantly executed work, featuring amazing production design, terrific cinematography and a winsome commitment towards that fast-talking, razor sharp dialogue of old Hollywood. It's just that this really isn't anything all that new. Any fan of Capra or Sturges will know exactly where this movie's going, exactly what secrets it's hiding and exactly how everything will wrap up. And, aside from the appearance of some admittedly ballsy stylistic flourishes in the third act, you'll quickly realize how right you are. Still, as tried and true as the thematics and narrativity remain, it's undeniably gorgeous to look at.