The Secret of My Success poster
Director Herbert Ross
Screenplay Jack Epps Jr., Jim Cash
Writer AJ Carothers

The Secret of My Success

Comedy1987

Tagline: There's no such thing as an overnight success. Brantley Foster took two weeks.

Release Date: 1987-04-10

Duration: 111 minutes

Synopsis

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.

Casting

  • Bruce McGill
    W. Shaw (uncredited)
  • Michael J. Fox
    Brantley Foster aka Carlton Whitfield
  • Helen Slater
    Christy Wills
  • Mercedes Ruehl
    Sheila
  • Bill Fagerbakke
    Ron
  • Mark Margolis
    Maintenence Man
  • Rick Aviles
    Maintenance Man
  • Richard Jordan
    Howard Prescott
  • Fred Gwynne
    Donald Davenport
  • Elizabeth Franz
    Grace Foster