The Hudsucker Proxy
“They took him for a fall guy... but he threw them for a hoop.”
A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.
Genres
Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Studio
Warner Bros. Pictures
Language
en
Status
Released
How The Hudsucker Proxy performed
Budget
$25.0M
Worldwide Gross
$2.8M
Gross Profit
−$22.2M
Return
0.1× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$403K
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~45/55, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (32% of the domestic run, typical for Comedy) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Norville Barnes
Tim Robbins
Norville Barnes
Amy Archer
Jennifer Jason Leigh
Amy Archer
Sidney J. Mussburger
Paul Newman
Sidney J. Mussburger
Waring Hudsucker
Charles Durning
Waring Hudsucker
Buzz
Jim True-Frost
Buzz
Chief
John Mahoney
Chief
Moses
Bill Cobbs
Moses
Smitty
Bruce Campbell
Smitty
Aloysius
Harry Bugin
Aloysius
Benny
John Seitz
Benny
Lou
Joe Grifasi
Lou
Board Member
Roy Brocksmith
Board Member
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