Review of The Secret of My Success

Michael J. Fox, Helen Slater, Richard Jordan, Margaret Whitton, John Pankow and Fred Gwynne star in this 1987 comedy. Fox (Back to the Future) plays Brantley Foster, an ambitious young man from Kansas who longs to work in the corporate world. He heads to New York where things go unexpectedly for him at first. The late, Jordan (The Mean Season) plays his distant uncle, Howard Prescott who is the boss of a company that's on the verge of a hostile takeover and he gives Brantley a job working in the mail room. Soon, Brantley decides to climb the corporate ladder by secretly masquerading as a phony executive on the side and help the company. He also finds romance with female executive, Christy Wills (Slater) whom Howard is having an affair with. Whitton (Major League) plays Howard's attractive wife, Vera who not only lusts after Brantley, but tries to get even with Howard, Pankow (To Live and Die in L.A.) plays Brantley's co-worker, Melrose and the late, Gwynne (The Munsters) appears near the end of the film as businessman, Donald Davenport. I grew up watching this film, Fox & the cast are great in it as well as David Foster's score. I recommend this good 80's comedy.