The Secret Of My Success

Starring: Michael J. Fox, Helen Slater, Richard Jordan, et al.

A would-be yuppie from Kansas sorts mail in Manhattan but pretends to be a corporate executive.

• Format: Blu-ray
• Language: English
• UPC: 738329250713
• Release Date: January 1
• Rating: PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
• Publisher: KL Studio Classics
• Director: Herbert Ross
• Starring: Michael J. Fox, Helen Slater, Richard Jordan, Margaret Whitton, John Pankow, Fred Gwynne, Elizabeth Franz, Christopher Durang
• Runtime: 1 hour, 50 minutes
• Number of Disks: 1
• Other Video Info: anamorphic
• Dimensions: 5.4" x 7.5" x 0.7"

Customer Reviews

Beware of "Auntie Vera".

Brantley Foster (Michael J. Fox), new to the city, is a young lad out of management school and looking for a job. Luck would have it that his Uncle Howard Prescott (Richard Jordan) runs a big corporation. Brantley gets a chance to work his way up from the mailroom. In the process, Brantley encounters his uncle’s wife, "Auntie Vera"(Margaret Whitton). She takes an instant shine to him. One of my favorite scenes is where he barely escapes Auntie Vera’s clutches. Soon Brantley realizes that the only way to get to the top is to start on a higher rung; finding an empty office and knowing the way the building system works, he takes on the persona of Carlton Whitfield, a male “Suit”. He has a business-type interaction with Christy (Helen Slater), a female “Suit”. She has a quasi-relationship with someone higher up. Then the action starts. There is a “working” weekend in which everyone has a second agenda. To this weekend, both Brantley and Carlton are invited. What are Brantley and Vera cooking up? Is Carlton getting too close to Christy? Does someone else have plans for Christy? Will Carlton meet Brantley? And who is the “bimbo?”