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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0687797107190
Format: NTSC, THX, Widescreen
Label: First Look Pictures
Manufacturer: First Look Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: First Look Pictures
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 25, 2004
Running Time: 88 minutes
Sales Rank: 33547
Studio: First Look Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: March 23, 1990
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Crime: easy for the tidy
Following a curiously encouraging turn of events, an advertising executive (Caine) resorts to murder in order to deal with his unbearable wife (Kurtz) and a malicious fellow drone (Reigert) who's been unfairly promoted to a position reserved for our central antagonist.
This uncompromising black comedy boasts a slight, albeit ingenious script that's cleverly played by its' excellent principle cast. It's notable that this story of corporate murder was adapted from a novel by Simon Brett ... Read More
Rating:  - My review of A Shock to the System
Michael Caine is fantastic as Graham Marshall, a advertising exec who has been playing the game for many years, waiting his chance to be the big boss. When the company decides to go in a newer direction, they pass him over. One accident makes him realise that he can get away with murder. With wit and ingenuity he finally gets to where he belongs.
Michael Caine at his best.
Rating: - what a shock!
Michael Caine gives a great performance in this movie as he was passed over for a promotion. He plays by the rules only to get trampled by those less deserving of said promotion. Then he takes matters into his own hands and makes power moves that gets him his much deserved promotion by any means necessary .
Rating: - Great Suspense
Great suspense. Michael Caine is excellent. The bad guys are very convincing in this picture.
Rating: - Punchy stinging black comedy of the workplace
Here's where Michael Caine shines, as a corporate exec who gets passed over for the promotion he's so feverishly expecting he'll get in favor of a young Turk--well played by Peter Reigert--who lords it over Caine's character in subtle (and not so subtle) ways. Caine's wife, also well played by Swoosie Kurtz, one of the great unknown American stage and film actresses, is a serious [problem] to him. So he has two people in his life who are supremely annoying.
What does he do? Well, let's just ... Read More
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