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List Price: $9.97 | | Label: HBO Home Video
Salesrank: 24307
Released: August 30, 2005 |
| Our Price: $3.00 |
| Used Price: $2.70 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
It's a big business battle for the top when a Senator's son and the chairman's daughter decide to take on the twisted, back-stabbing world of corporate decision making. Ruthless, merciless - and sometimes clothe-less - it's every man or woman for themselves in the fight to make it all the way up the corporate ladder to the HEAD OFFICE.
Head Office Reviews:
Snoozer with a few high points 
2009-10-08 - Many of the so-called stars of the film (Danny DeVito, for example) are cameo characters (in Rick Moranis's case that's a good thing). The writing is lame and aimless for the first good half hour. * SPOILERS * It suddenly picks up when they smoke a joint on the way to the small town factory they're closing down and Jack, fresh out of school, gives them the truth as to why they'e closing down the factory - it's in the company's best interest. Instead of giving the expected PR bull, he basically tells the truth and suddenly much to everyone's surprise, the press is giving him rave reviews and he gets promoted. After that the movie settles back into the boring rhythm and bland writing of the first part of the movie and again it's about as good as taking sleeping medicine until there's a big meeting with central american arms buyers who are supporting the dictators back home, at which point Jack steals the money, escapes and then donates it to the communists - the head of Jack's company tumbles.
The plot synopsis above is actually a lot more interesting than the movie. I turned this off the first time I watched it after about 20 minutes. When I saw all these glowing reviews I thought I'd better try again. And while it does pick up about midway, it more or less settles back into the same low energy writing of the first half and ends Hollywood style. Not a must-see by any means contrary to what reviews here would indicate. Fortunately it's only 87 minutes. Some of those minutes are longer than others.
Head Office - Look Out Below! 
2009-09-11 - I used to watch this back in the day on HBO. It was funny then, & it still holds up today. The cast & the cameos are a treat. Judge Reinhold plays Jack, a college grad being thrown up the ladder of a corrupt mega-corporation. Richard Masur plays Jack's 'mentor', Max.
Max: Lesson No.4 - the secret to survival here is never make a decision.
Jack: Never?
Max: Never. The minute you do, your screwed
This is good, plain fun!
I was worried when I saw that the DVD aspect ratio was listed as full-screen (1.33:1), but this comment on the Amazon customer review by Nicholas Moore "nicklesm17" confirms what I've seen on my new DVD --Floridante says: The release is in anamorphic widescreen, but unfortunately it is the wrong aspect ratio. The title credits are presented in the original ratio of 2.35:1, everything else was reduced to a 1.85:1 ratio via pan & scan.-- Good enough for me! It was great to finally see it in wide screen.
Read through the other reviews here, as most have their own takes on this great flick. DIS-CO-NNECT!!
Office Mania
2009-06-27 - I saw this movie years ago and remembered that Rick Moranis' role was particularly funny. I watched the movie again mainly to see him. I wasn't disappointed.
The Corporate Ladder
2008-10-05 - This is a very funny movie, well written and acted. It's a hilarious view of how some people move up in a big corporation. We bought the VHS years ago and wore it out! The DVD version is even better.
Head Office 
2008-03-23 - This movie is very funny and highly underated. It surprises me that it's never shown on tv.
