Jonah Abbott
There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.
Zandra
The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.
Billy Ollie
Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
Kenyae Kofi
The movie wasn't really that good to me. I don't think a man could ever go into an non-owned office and go ahead and take control of it without being hired. The movie is just nothing, but people cheating on each other and a form of incest which made me very uncomfortable to watch this movie. In-laws or not it is not okay to mess with your in-laws. This movie was absolutely ridiculous to me. I just don't like old school movies from older times. I was trying to keep an open mind, but to me the movie was not that great, and neither was the acting. In conclusion, anything like this to get filmed again in the future should be a lot more realistic and possibly have better music in the film. The music and plots was just flat out insane.
mrb1980
Michael J. Fox had a string of successes in the 1980s, "The Secret of My Success" among them. He plays a young college graduate from Kansas who tries hard--very hard--to succeed in the cutthroat world of New York business. Fox played a standard character in his movies of this period, that of a young, somewhat naïve guy with a heart of gold and who succeeds despite long odds. Here, he works his way up to the corporate boardroom by living a double life and trying hard to impress his stuffed-shirt co-workers.Richard Jordan plays Howard Prescott, the snarling, autocratic CEO of the company, and Helen Slater plays a young executive to which Fox's character is instantly attracted. Fox's limitless charisma and Jordan's superlative acting keep this movie from sinking fast--without them, this film would have rolled over and died. It's worth watching and has a few good (if somewhat childish) laughs, but Fox and Jordan are the whole show.
statuskuo
I'd seen this movie on rotation via HBO back when I was a kid and Katrina & the Waves were just blasted all over the radio. What this movie suffers from, and what a similar movie like "St. Elmo's Fire" is the overbearing ridiculous David Foster music interludes. Yes, it works in terms on inner monologues, but MAN...is it ever outdated. So, whilst the movie has some fun, and precious moments...the schtick that it skates on is so thin...it is closer to being a very long sitcom than a movie.I feel a person of my generation does appreciate it for its kitsch, but can't say anyone who would pick it up now would feel the same way.
liberalgems
The Secret Of My Success shows what someone with a backbone could accomplish under the most difficult of circumstances. What the Mathew J. Fox character tries to prevent in the film actually happened in real life to my father's multi-billion dollar corporation back in the 1980's! As a result, he, and tens of thousands of other people lost their jobs! Too bad they didn't have someone like the Michael J. Fox character attending their boardroom meetings! It might of saved a lot of people much grief!Beside the interesting story, the chemistry between the actors was fantastic! The soundtrack was one of the very few that's memorable. The sexual situations were plentiful and quite humorous! Parts of Connecticut look exactly like they were portrayed in the film! (Yes, there is a lot of mind-boggling wealth hidden down secluded country roads!) The Secret Of My Success is definitely a home run, and one of my all-time favorite comedies!
