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The Secret of My Success

The Secret of My Success

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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: A great movie!
Review: This is a great exemple of what happens to the business today, the movie itself is great, with the image of the "white knight" American who save the corporation. I in a academic point of view find the concept hysterical, even more if you look at corporation today! We might need more Brantly Foster around.

Anyway Micheal J. Fox Rules!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: my single reason for coming to New York
Review: this is a great movie.....i simply love it......i watched this movie so many times....i feel as if i am living it.....

my first job was also in the mail room....now...i am an executive.....in a large corporation....of course i didnt sleep with the boss's wife...to get to the top.....but......i did work hard enough.....to get there....

i recommend this movie...to anyone....who simply has a dream.....to become better...and successful in life.....

watch it with a loved one....or watch it alone.....sleep at nite and dream....and the following morning....wake up...and make all your dreams come true.....

enjoy your life..and the movie......

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Answer, Sleep with your aunt if she owns the company?
Review: This is one of my favorite MJF movies. It captures the essence of what made him so popular as an actor. There were no LOL scenes, except maybe at the end, but lots of broad smiles while watching it.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: boom boom room
Review: this movie gives some big boom. sound track is great and that little mike fox is a hunk. kudos indeed

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Entertaining and Inspiring
Review: This movie had turned to be one of my Inspirational material. Whenever my mood goes really off i used to watch this movie. Michael J fox was good as ever. The strong story with the right casting had made this movie one of the exceptional one i had ever seen.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Up-tight people with no sense of humor...BEWARE!!!
Review: This movie is awesome, and there is no denying it. It stars Michael J. Fox. If that isn't enough to win you over, I'm not sure what will. But I'd like to point out this movie's absolutely genius use of the classic 80's movie montage. That's right! MONTAGE! New York City montage no less. To the montage fans all over the world, this movie is the Citizen Kane of montages. Brantley Foster is climbing the corporate ladder, not to mention the fact that he's LIVING 25 HOURS A DAY! Oh, Carlton.....I mean Brantley.....you're my hero.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Entertainment
Review: Unbelievable? Yes. Unrealistic? Yes. Enjoyable? Yes. This movie should not be taken seriously. It should be watched for the sheer entertainment value of a harmless comedy. Certainly not on the level of Fox's "Back to the Future" films, but since this film is based in today's world and our familiar society (at least during the '80's), you can enjoy it with your friends and family. There is no vulgar language from my recollection nor any nudity, no sex (by today's standards), nor any violence. Today, this film may seem lame and labeled along with films of the '40s and '50s, but looking back, there were truly times when there was innocence during the '80s and there were good things that came out of it.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: MJF Had More On The Ball Than Some I've Seen Move Up
Review: While many dismiss Secret of My Success as a fluffy, unrealistic light comedy film, the fact is that Fox's character was a lot more substantive than some of the Bozos I have seen vault up the corporate ladder. Most of them nice-looking, all of them weilding a functional line of bull, they have somehow landed in corporations and performed no work at all -- aside from relentless self-promotion.

At least MJF collected and studied some reference materials in his office. The real-life airheads I've seen did nothing of the sort. Their sole activity was to shadow the suits, provide conversation (read "agreement"), and act as nothing more than a sycophantic fawning toady lickspittle apple-polishing yes-man lapdog. And, they always got promoted, right up the ladder.

MJF's character indeed had some of that in him, plugging really early into a network anchored by the president's wife, and we did see the young man doing a lot of good-old glad-handing. But you can't summarily dismiss Secret of My Success as a fluff-piece. There's no telling how many skippy-dog little pretty-boys have employed the film as a personal business model, and have actually reaped real-life corporate success therefrom.


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