There's no such thing as an overnight success. Brantley Foster took two weeks.
Brantley Foster, a well-educated kid from Kansas, has always dreamed of making it big in New York City, but once there, he learns that jobs - and girls - are hard to get. When he visits his uncle, Howard Prescott, who runs a multi-million-dollar company, he is given a job in the mail room.
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Classical in form, effortless, comic and warm.
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- effortlessdemanding
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Cast
- 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
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- Herbert RossDirector
- Jim CashScreenplay
- Jack Epps Jr.Screenplay
- AJ CarothersWriter
- Carlo Di PalmaDirector of Photography
- David FosterOriginal Music Composer
- Boris BlankOriginal Music Composer
- Paul HirschEditor
- Herbert RossProducer
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