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With their usual cinematic aplomb, the Coen Brothers open the floodgates and unleash a torrent of invigorating witticisms and dizzying visuals in this spectacular, over-the-top tribute to the 1940s screwball comedy. Robbins stars as a beamish Midwestern rube working in the Orwellian mailroom of the Hudsucker Corporation, a megalithic industrial powerhouse headed up by a heartless and power-hungry Newman. True to the genre, Robbins soon finds himself on a meteoric rise to power upon which he must learn life's hard lessons. Leigh, as a hard-nosed reporter, rat-a-tat-tats her lines at machine gun pace while paying splendid homage to Katharine Hepburn, Rosalind Russell and Barbara Stanwyck.

A highly entertaining film, from its dramatic industrial Gothic scenery - seemingly straight out of Fritz Lang's Metropolis - to its Capra-esque finale.