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The Secret of My Success
Brantley Foster, a well-educated kid from Kansas, has always dreamed of making it big in New York City, but once there, he learns that jobs - and girls - are hard to get. When he visits his uncle, Howard Prescott, who runs a multi-million-dollar company, he is given a job in the mail room.
1987 · Directed by Herbert Ross · 111 min · Comedy · 13 frames
Tagline
There's no such thing as an overnight success. Brantley Foster took two weeks.
Crew
- Screenplay: Jim Cash, Jack Epps Jr., AJ Carothers
- Cinematography: Carlo Di Palma
- Edited by: Paul Hirsch
- Music: David Foster, Boris Blank
- Production design: Edward Pisoni, Peter S. Larkin
- Produced by: Herbert Ross
Cast
- Michael J. Fox as Brantley Foster aka Carlton Whitfield
- Helen Slater as Christy Wills
- Richard Jordan as Howard Prescott
- Margaret Whitton as Vera Prescott
- John Pankow as Fred Melrose
- Christopher Murney as Barney Rattigan
- Gerry Bamman as Art Thomas
- Fred Gwynne as Donald Davenport
- Carol Ann Susi as Jean
- Elizabeth Franz as Grace Foster
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Universal Pictures, Rastar Productions
- Budget: $12,000,000
- Box office: $110,996,879
- Themes: new york city, dual identity, mistake in person, success, wealth, corporate downsizing, workplace romance, college graduate, corporate ladder, office building
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