ReaderKenka Let's be realistic.

Afouotos Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

HottWwjdIam There is just so much movie here. For some it may be too much. But in the same secretly sarcastic way most telemarketers say the phrase, the title of this one is particularly apt.

PiraBit if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

rodrig58 Just what I wanted to see all the movies with Jennifer Jason Leigh, that I found "The Hudsucker Proxy" online and I saw it. I saw Tim Robbins with other eyes, I consider him a much better actor now than before. Excellent Paul Newman, of course, unique personality! But to return to Jennifer Jason Leigh, she is the main attraction of the film, the one that makes all the money. She is young, beautiful and great great Actress! The film is not great, only the performances of the named actors make it viewable.

glean7 In terms of the situation where the female newspaper reporter gets close to the man she thinks is an imbecile only to eventually discover he is not the moron he's depicted to be in the papers. And like in HP, the female reporter in Mr. Deeds claims to be from a small town like him. Amy Archer in HP pretends to be from the same town as Norville. Winona Rider's character pretends to be from a different small town similar to Longfellow Deeds. Like in HP, Mr. Deeds falls in love the female reporter, despite the fact that she lied to him about her identity and did him wrong. The difference era wise was that HP was set in the 50's whereas Mr. Deeds (2002) was set in present day.

DKosty123 This has got to be the worst performance I have ever seen of Paul Newman. If they had used this for the recipe of his spaghetti sauce, ugh.I think this movie might have been better made in the 1950's as it seems that far out of touch with the 1990's. The want ad in the newspaper says it all when it says "want a job where you slave for hours on end with no little or no pay? Work at HudsuckerActually it might take that much work to like this movie. When Robert Osborne introduced it on TCM he mainly mentioned the big names in the cast and the fact that the Coen's got their start with 8MM films. Think they were still doing that when they wrote and filmed this one. They were obviously too big for their britches here as this film falls far short of what they were trying for.There is a rumor that the real movie was put in a port-o-john on the film location by mistake and this is the out takes?

cinefreakdude I love the Coen brothers, and being a lesser Coen brother movie is hard, because all there others are so dang brilliant. The Hudsucker Proxy is a prime example of this. It's a good, funny movie, but watching it in the line-up the most the Coen brothers' other work, it's just a little weak. There are some great things about this flick though, for example the cinematography and visual look of the movie is totally awesome, and I really liked the film's premise/themes. The only thing I really didn't care for in this movie was Jennifer Jason Leigh... her character was annoying to me. The Hudsucker Proxy is definitely worth watching, and if you're a hardcore fan of the Coen brothers like myself, I think you'll enjoy and appreciate this underrated gem.