The Secret of My Success

1987 · directed by Herbert Ross

Rating
55/100
Hit
no

Brantley Foster, a well-educated kid from Kansas, has always dreamed of making it big in New York City, but once there, he learns that jobs - and girls - are hard to get. When he visits his uncle, Howard Prescott, who runs a multi-million-dollar company, he is given a job in the mail room.

The Secret of My Success (1987), directed by Herbert Ross, rates 55/100. See how its director, cast and crew rate across their careers.

Cast

  • Michael J. Fox
  • Helen Slater
  • Richard Jordan
  • Margaret Whitton
  • John Pankow
  • Christopher Murney
  • Gerry Bamman
  • Fred Gwynne
  • Carol Ann Susi
  • Elizabeth Franz

Crew

  • Carlo Di Palma — Director of Photography
  • Paul Hirsch — Editor
  • Boris Blank — Original Music Composer
  • David Foster — Original Music Composer
  • AJ Carothers — Screenplay
  • Jack Epps Jr. — Screenplay
  • Jim Cash — Screenplay

More from Herbert Ross

  1. Play It Again, Sam (1972) — 80/100 · hit
  2. The Last of Sheila (1973) — 79/100
  3. Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1969) — 73/100
  4. The Goodbye Girl (1977) — 71/100
  5. The Sunshine Boys (1975) — 70/100
  6. The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976) — 70/100

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