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Young Brantley Foster is fresh out of college, and determined to climb New York's corporate ladder in a record time by masquerading as an up-and-coming executive, even though he's really the new mail boy. Love and romance don't seem to mix with business, no matter how much everybody tries...... Read more

Starring Michael J. Fox, Helen Slater, Margaret Whitton, Richard Jordan
Director Herbert Ross
Genres Comedy

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The Secret Of My Success

Young Brantley Foster is fresh out of college, and determined to climb New York's corporate ladder in a record time by masquerading as an up-and-coming executive, even though he's really the new mail boy. Love and romance don't seem to mix with business, no matter how much everybody tries......

Starring Michael J. Fox, Helen Slater, Margaret Whitton, Richard Jordan
Director Herbert Ross
Studio 4 FRONT VIDEO
Run time DVD: 1 hr 45 mins
Certificate DVD Certificate PG.gif
Genres Comedy
Language English
Dubbed French, German, Italian, Spanish
Subtitles Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Hungarian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish, Turkish
Released DVD: 28 Apr 2005
Production year: 1987
Format DVD

  • Critics' reviews (3) of The Secret Of My Success

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  • 2 stars out of 5

    Yet another in the seemingly endless parade of lacklustre British comedies, this features James Booth as a naive, garrulous mother's boy who starts the film as a PC and ends up unwittingly helping to overthrow a foreign dictator, becoming a hero in the process. The film owes much to Voltaire's Candide but it's just not very funny, though James Booth is generally worth watching, and Lionel Jeffries gets to play four roles in what was the Kind Hearts and Coronets style then.

    • Radio Times
    • Posted 29 Jan 2006
  • 1 stars out of 4

    An amiable melange of familiar situations with just a touch of Midnight Cowboy and a sharp edge to some of the writing; but not enough to keep its star at the top.

    • Halliwell's Film Guide
    • Posted 02 Mar 2006

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  • 4 out of 4 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 5 stars

    80s magic with Teenwolf himself

    Come on!!!!! What a feel good, New york, 80s, capitalist, reminds you of when you were a kid and everything was happy type film!!! Michael J. Fox does what he does best in his cheeky, opportunist way. This is Ferris Bueller's Day Off vs. Wall Street. This film was made in a time when New York was the centre of the world. No-one cared about Al-Qaeda and Iraq, people just wanted to watch Teenwolf and the A-Team and Knight Rider. Things made sense back then.

    The soundtrack is just unbelievable. More 80s Karate-Kidesque American feel good rock songs than a Kiss world tour. Seriously, if you ever feel miserable, or it's hammering it down with rain on a cold winter's night, then stick this little gem in your dvd player and you'll be smiling in no time.

    BRING BACK THE 80s !!!!!!

      • Tom Pope from Brighton
      • Posted 13 Apr 2007 10:56

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  • 3 out of 3 people found this review helpful

    Rated - 3 stars

    Entertaining nonsense...

    ...staring Michael J Fox as a country boy who moves to NYC after graduating college only to find that he can't get a job. Throwing himself on the (almost non-existant) mercy of his distant 'uncle' Howard, the head of the Pemrose corporation, he gets a job in the mail room only to appropriate an empty office and pass himself off as a new executive who (of course), has all the answers on how to save the ailing company if only everyone else would listen to him, and trying to keep his boss (or anyone else) from catching him. As if this isn't enough, he is also falling in love with Helen Slater and trying to convince her that his ideas are correct both for the company and for the two of them. I won't explain the complex relationships as watching them unravel is half the fun, leading to a truly farcical conclusion at a house party. This film is supremely light-minded fluff but it is also an amusing way to waste a couple of hours.

      • A customer from North Shields, England
      • Posted 12 Jan 2005 23:53

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