Up until this week, about the only thing I knew about 1994's Coen Brothers' film "The Hudsucker Proxy" was this:
Now that I've watched the film, I understand a lot more about this scene (Natch). And this is indeed a Coen brothers movie, what with the cartoony action and all.
I liked it. I liked it's throwback feel to bigger morality shows Hollywood used to produce. I saw bits of "It's A Wonderful Life," "Citizen Kane," and other big message pictures in it, with a bit of Terry Gilliam fantasy thrown in.
The Coens excel at casting, or at least the people they hire do (I don't know much about their process). Tim Robbins is wonderful in this film. He's got that innocent goofiness the character needed. Seeing John Mahoney as the hard-bitten newspaper editor was also fun.
I'm not sure if it's a film I need to watch again, but it was certainly worth watching once.
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