

A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.
Production
Massive practical sets that CGI could never replicate.
Acting
Jennifer Jason Leigh's rapid-fire His Girl Friday homage.
Writing
Dialogue so dense it practically hums.

Director
Joel Coen
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The hula hoop montage took six weeks to shoot and involved 1,200 extras, making it one of the most expensive silent-film homages ever constructed.
The film was a massive box office bomb, earning only $3 million against a $25 million budget—yet it's arguably the most visually ambitious comedy of the 1990s.
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