Set in 1958 but evoking Frank Capra films of the ’30s and ’40s, The Hudsucker Proxy is a stylishly written and conceived picture about naïve Norville Barnes (Tim Robbins), who comes to the big city with big dreams. As feisty newspaper reporter Amy Archer, Jennifer Jason Leigh channels Rosalind Russell in His Girl Friday, Charles Durning completes a spectacular freefall, and the incomparable Paul Newman rounds out the cast as calculating executive Sidney J. Mussburger. Critic Roger Ebert hailed it as “a feast for the eyes and the imagination.” 1994, 35mm, 111 minutes.
The Hudsucker Proxy
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