The Secret of My Success
“There's no such thing as an overnight success. Brantley Foster took two weeks.”
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.
Genres
Comedy
Studio
Universal Pictures
Language
en
Status
Released
How The Secret of My Success performed
Budget
$12.0M
Worldwide Gross
$111.0M
Gross Profit
$99.0M
Return
9.2× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$16M
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
Brantley Foster aka Carlton Whitfield
Michael J. Fox
Brantley Foster aka Carlton Whitfield
Christy Wills
Helen Slater
Christy Wills
Howard Prescott
Richard Jordan
Howard Prescott
Vera Prescott
Margaret Whitton
Vera Prescott
Fred Melrose
John Pankow
Fred Melrose
Barney Rattigan
Christopher Murney
Barney Rattigan
Art Thomas
Gerry Bamman
Art Thomas
Donald Davenport
Fred Gwynne
Donald Davenport
Jean
Carol Ann Susi
Jean
Grace Foster
Elizabeth Franz
Grace Foster
Burt Foster
Drew Snyder
Burt Foster
Maureen
Susan Kellermann
Maureen
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