The Secret of My Success

1987    1h 51m    PG-13
Comedy, Romance
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Brantley Foster, a well-educated kid from Kansas, has always dreamed of making it big in New York, but once in New York, he learns that jobs - and girls - are hard to get. When Brantley visits his uncle, Howard Prescott, who runs a multi-million-dollar company, he is given a job in the company's mail room.
Directed By
Herbert Ross
Written By
AJ Carothers
Studio
Universal Pictures, Rastar Productions

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Cast of The Secret of My Success
  • Michael J. FoxBrantley Foster aka Carlton Whitfield
  • Helen SlaterChristy Wills
  • Richard JordanHoward Prescott
  • Margaret WhittonVera Prescott
  • John PankowFred Melrose
  • Christopher MurneyBarney Rattigan
  • Gerry BammanArt Thomas
  • Fred GwynneDonald Davenport
  • Carol Ann SusiJean
  • Elizabeth FranzGrace Foster
  • Drew SnyderBurt Foster
  • Susan KellermannMaureen
  • Barton HeymanArnold Forbush
  • Mercedes RuehlSheila
  • Ira WheelerOwens
  • Ashley J. LaurenceVernon S. Fletcher
  • Rex RobbinsMcMasters
  • Christopher DurangDavis
  • MacIntyre DixonFerguson
  • Bill FagerbakkeRon
  • Jack DavidsonDavidson
  • John BowmanProctor
  • Jeff BrooksExecutive
  • Ascanio SharpeExecutive
  • Don AmendoliaExecutive
  • Judith MalinaMrs. Meacham
  • Mary Catherine WrightResearch Department Clerk
  • Joseph RagnoShipping Executive
  • Burke PearsonFired Executive
  • Ray RamirezLiquor Store Owner
  • Gloria IrizarryWife of Liquor Store Owner
  • Mark MargolisMaintenence Man
  • Rick AvilesMaintenance Man
  • John CapodiceMan in KRS Building
  • Sally-Jane HeitWoman in KRS Building
  • Richard Arthur GalloHarried KRS Executive
  • Luis Antonio RamosCuban
  • Cindy CrawfordHerself (uncredited)
  • R. Emmett Fitzsimmons(uncredited)
  • Elain R. Graham(uncredited)
  • London HallSecretary (uncredited)
  • Bruce McGillW. Shaw (uncredited)
  • Tatjana PatitzHerself (uncredited)
  • Rhoda RobinsonReceptionist (uncredited)
  • Tucker SmallwoodExecutive (uncredited)
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