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The Secret of My Success
1987
· Movie
· 111 min
C
MEANRANK
62/100
Every rating
36–84
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 36, highest is Google on 84. Critics average 41, everyone else 69.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A ambitious young man from Kansas moves to New York City with big dreams, only to find his mailroom job at a large corporation is a dead end. He concocts a scheme to create a fake executive identity for himself within the same company. He must now juggle his two lives, navigating boardrooms and corporate intrigue while trying to avoid exposure and win the heart of a executive.
Details
- Director
- Herbert Ross
- Writers
- AJ Carothers, Jack Epps Jr., Jim Cash
- Studio
- Universal Pictures, Rastar Productions
- Released
- 10 April 1987
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 111 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $12.0M
- Box office
- $111.0M
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