The Secret of My Success
1987 · TMDB 6.5
Directed by Herbert Ross
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.
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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.
Same director
- Runtime
- 111 min
- Released
- 1987-04-10
- Studio
- Universal Pictures
- Country
- United States of America
- Language
- English
- TMDB score
- 6.5
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Key contributors
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Herbert Ross
Director
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Jim Cash
Writer
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Jack Epps Jr.
Writer
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AJ Carothers
Writer
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Michael J. Fox
Brantley Foster aka Carlton Whitfield
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Helen Slater
Christy Wills
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Richard Jordan
Howard Prescott
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Margaret Whitton
Vera Prescott
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John Pankow
Fred Melrose
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Christopher Murney
Barney Rattigan
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Gerry Bamman
Art Thomas
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Fred Gwynne
Donald Davenport