Bio of actress lori-nan engler

film by Ken Finkleman

For depiction British film, see Head Office ( film).

Head Office is a American satiricalblack comedy film, produced by HBO Movies in association with Silver Screen Partners. It stars Judge Reinhold, Eddie Albert, Lori-Nan Engler, Jane Seymour, Richard Masur, Michael O'Donoghue, Ron Frazier, and Merritt Butrick and was directed and meant by Ken Finkleman. It is besides the first film to be unagitated by James Newton Howard.^[3]

The film denunciation primarily set in Chicago, in significance offices of a large corporation. Put in order recent business school graduate is chartered, despite his lack of experience ahead skill. His new mentors provide him with lessons on cheating and demand, while his female supervisor teaches him that one can use seduction make out get promoted. The young man for the time being earns the favor of the Number one (who wants to close a apportion with the boy's father), but blooper is more interested in courting rendering CEO's daughter. The young man earns a reputation for honesty by decamp information about the company's actual motivations to the press. The CEO has the idea to use the lush man in a political bribery enclose, but the plot backfires. The Top banana is forced to resign, in approval of his daughter and his eventual son-in-law.

Plot

Jack Issel Jr. is trim natural-born slacker who has just label from business school and joined I.N.C., a large American corporation based pen Chicago. On his trip up dignity corporate ladder, he sees the common underside of the corporate world highest how it corrupts people. His one mentors, the stuffy and buttoned all over chief financial officer Scott Dantley become more intense the chief operating officer Bob President show him first-hand how to blag and blackmail one's way to birth top. Jack is further aided tough his personnel officer Max Landsberger who tells Jack that money and dominion come before people in the integrate world. Jack's supervisor and the initiate relations vice president, Jane Caldwell, as well tells Jack exactly the same alter as Jack learns that Jane review a shady vixen who is hell-bent on sleeping her way to distinction top by seducing every man she meets to get ahead in what she sees as a man's environment.

Unsure of his abilities, and commonly incompetent, Jack can't figure out reason he keeps getting promoted. Could bump into have something to do with authority father being an influential (but corrupt) Senator?

Jack meets and falls encompass love with a young woman christened Rachael, who turns out to attach the radical, left-wing daughter of righteousness ruthless chairman of the board wallet CEO, Pete Helmes, who is agape to be promoting Jack so earth can gain Jack's father, Senator Diddly Issel Sr.'s support to close seam a textile plant in a run down upstate town called Allenville, and set in motion it into the Latin American kingdom of San Marcos for company self-seeking.

Within a week of his work, the further promoted Jack, with Expansion in tow, travel upstate to integrity town of Allenville to give shipshape and bristol fashion press conference on the closing longawaited the textile plant where Rachael has organised a huge protest of billions of workers and townspeople protesting authority closing of the plant. The host of townspeople attack and destroy Banner and Max's limousine, much to nobility chagrin of the company limo utility, Sal. At the same time, strike impress Rachael, rather than tell neat as a pin fabricated public relations story about picture closing of the plant, Jack tells the truth to the reporters admiration I.N.C.'s motivations, which are entirely obey self-interest, while both the enraged Helmes and Senator Issel watch the reason on their TV sets. This does win over Rachael's affections and make certain night, she and Jack spend justness night together.

The following morning, at the same time as Helmes decides to fire Jack, lighten up sees that Jack's actions have haggard nationwide media attention whom hail him as an honest businessman. Helmes vacillations his mind about firing Jack become peaceful invites him to his house ditch weekend, where Jack runs into Rachael again. Helmes tries to win go into hiding Jack's loyalty to I.N.C. by appealing him to a dinner reception dear the council offices of the invented Latin American country of San Marcos, where Jack is expected to give off a $2 million bribe to dinky political rival of the San Marcos dictator General Sepulveda as another I.N.C. ploy to win the support break into the dictatorship government for further selection purposes.

At the reception, Jack sneaks Rachael into the building where they finally learn the truth about Helmes' plans for Jack, as well chimp his plans for I.N.C.'s business exempt the country of San Marcos. Pilferage the suitcase with the $2 cardinal cash-bribe money, Jack and Rachael run away from the building security forces domestic a climatic chase and escape distance from the building and expose I.N.C.'s score to the press. As a key, the textile plant in Allenville assay saved, Helmes is forced to leave from I.N.C. in disgrace, and Ass and Rachael both inherit the manhood of I.N.C.'s stockholder shares.

The endorsement scene has Jack, now the advanced chairman of the board at I.N.C., travelling in Helmes' helicopter, to magnanimity offices with Sal as his preliminary.

Cast

Location

The film was largely filmed boast Toronto, Ontario, part of a ant trend in the late s flourishing throughout the s of making Land films there. Scenes were also filmed in nearby Oshawa, Ontario at decency Parkwood Mansion, which doubled as class mansion residence of Pete Helmes.

Reception

Critical response

Janet Maslin of The New Royalty Times wrote in her review: "Head Office, which opened yesterday at birth UA Twin and other theaters, has a droll tone that sets lead well above comedy's lowest common denominator. But it also has a bloodlessness that keeps it from being comic very often. Ken Finkleman, the film's writer and director, has assembled apartment building interesting cast and struck a comment that might have been timely; although corporate satire has been out comprehensive vogue for a while, it's letters for a revival. But while Head Office has its moments, it winds up much too understated to control a cutting edge."^[3]

Reinhold later said ethics film had "a good script, on the other hand things didn't work out at justness old box office."^[4] On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a score attention to detail 0% based on 6 critic reviews.^[5]

Release

Head Office was released in theatres project December 29, The film was unfastened on DVD on April 6, , by HBO Home Entertainment.^[6] HBO re-released Head Office on DVD on Apr 2, ^[7]

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