Movie
The Secret of My Success
Overview
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.
Details
- Release date
- 1987-04-10
- Runtime
- 111 min
- Genres
- Comedy
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Universal Pictures, Rastar Productions
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Michael J. Fox as Brantley Foster aka Carlton Whitfield
- Helen Slater as Christy Wills
- Richard Jordan as Howard Prescott
- Margaret Whitton as Vera Prescott
- John Pankow as Fred Melrose
- Christopher Murney as Barney Rattigan
- Gerry Bamman as Art Thomas
- Fred Gwynne as Donald Davenport
- Carol Ann Susi as Jean
- Elizabeth Franz as Grace Foster
- Drew Snyder as Burt Foster
- Susan Kellermann as Maureen
Crew
- Herbert Ross - Director
- AJ Carothers - Writer
- Jim Cash - Screenplay
- Jack Epps Jr. - Screenplay
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