I noticed a couple of things about Arthur Hiller's "Taking Care of Business". One was the obviously silly plot. Jim Belushi's inmate manages to sneak out of jail to watch the World Series and assumes the identity of Charles Grodin's executive. Another was that this was Grodin's second movie in three years about someone assuming another person's identity (the previous one was "The Couch Trip", starring Dan Aykroyd as a mental patient who poses as one of the doctors in the institution).
But there was something else. Posing as the businessman, the inmate goes to the business meetings and upsets everything (in the craziest way possible, I might note). The '80s were all about greed, with the mergers and acquisitions that accompanied it. Now, a man who had suffered from Reaganomics was having his revenge.
Yes, that's tangential and probably unintentional. Nevertheless, it was what I liked most about the movie. The movie is nothing special, but makes no pretense about what it is. And was Loryn Locklin a real babe or what?
But there was something else. Posing as the businessman, the inmate goes to the business meetings and upsets everything (in the craziest way possible, I might note). The '80s were all about greed, with the mergers and acquisitions that accompanied it. Now, a man who had suffered from Reaganomics was having his revenge.
Yes, that's tangential and probably unintentional. Nevertheless, it was what I liked most about the movie. The movie is nothing special, but makes no pretense about what it is. And was Loryn Locklin a real babe or what?