The Secret of My Success (1986) | Movie Reaction | First Time Watching | What's His Secret?
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- Thanks to Christi + Patrick for the Special Request! We both check out the Michael J Fox romantic comedy, The Secret of My Success (1986). Here's our reaction to our first time watching.
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I love this movie, grew up watching it numerous times as a kid in the late 80s. The beautiful and talented Helen Slater will always be Supergirl to me! 😃
She's so awesome. Another good film she was in is 12:01 with Jonathan Silverman of Weekend at Bernie's fame. It's a more serious version of Groundhog Day in many ways.
She'll always be Billie Jean , to me . FAIR IS FAIR .
@@majorfaulking4427 xd
Same.
Billie Jean
I watched this movie sooooo many times growing up. My friends wanted to be firefighters and princesses … I wanted to execute a hostile takeover 😂
SAME
Oh, and Working Girl!
@@yaseminmerwede6596 Looking for this comment. They Have to watch that movie. It's so great and the cast is first rate
Love this movie! Margaret Whitton as Auntie Vera is hilarious.
she reminded me of Bette Midler a lot, like in Ruthless People
Back before there were computers on every desk and everyone started doing their own typing, and before decades of ruthless personnel-cutting, many large companies maintained a pool of typists / secretaries who were not assigned to a specific executive. It’s most likely that Jean was already employed in the secretarial pool and was then reassigned to be Whitfield’s personal secretary. All that would take would be a memo from a person authorized to make that assignment.
"That was a very expensive vase, you b*tch" is one of my favorite lines simply because of the delivery. Love this movie. Great reaction!
there was an old show i saw as a kid, where this guy was talking to a rich old woman
& she had a vase, "This is my vaise, it's not very old..."
*SMASH!*
"MY VAHSE, MY ANTIQUE VAHSE!"
Hell yes! I have been begging all my favorite reaction channels to do a reaction to this movie since it showed up on Netflix this spring. One of the rare romantic comedies from a man's perspective. They need to bring movies like this back! Drink every time you hear the word "suit".
I saw this in the theatre. Everyone loved MJF in the 80s!!! He was a true movie star! Nothing but charisma! So funny and charming in every interview he gave too. If MJF had not got sick he would still be starring in movies today. Brakes my heart to see him now. MJF & his wife one of the best love stories of all time. I'll never forget standing in line for Back to the Future and saying to my girlfriend, "I hope his character is as good as Alex P. Keaton?". As a Canadian I can say MJF and John Candy are the most loved Canadians of all time.
One of the best comedies of the 80s. Michael J Fox just brilliant in the role of post boy and executive highflyer. Just hilarious scenes where it just goes to show how you can get away with anything in such a large organisation where nobody really knows anyone in the building. Funny scenes in the board meetings looking for Carlton Whitfield. A great film with a great 80s soundtrack saw this in the cinema back in 1986 love it then, love it even more now.
I’m glad you guys liked this, it was a favorite growing up. It’s always nice seeing someone react to a movie no one else is doing.
LOVE the ovation when your daughter walks in😎What a star
"The sexual revolution is over - everybody out of bed". I am BEYOND excited that you guys reacted to this - I ADORE this movie - and you guys are the very first ones to react to it. I hope now it makes the rounds - so others can discover it. Cheers from Canada! :) My favourite scene is the gazebo one where everyone is plotting and scheming - with the David Foster Gazebo song in the background.
Classic 80s underrated comedy. Michael J. Fox was great in this. I used to watch this whenever it was on. I love how it descends into a sitcom plot, "have you seen Whitfield? I need you to stay close to Whitfield!"
This is such an underrated film definitely a classic
I always enjoy your daughter coming in because it reminds me of our children. It's nice to see we aren't alone in our struggles to get some peace. :) Ours are so cute, as is yours, that it's difficult to get angry even if we want to in our flesh.
This is one I never expected to see anyone do a reaction for. I always found it very entertaining and I'm glad you guys did too.
LOL, I am actually in this movie. I was a truck driver in Manhattan when this was made and there is a scene where MJ Fox is running up some stairs to go inside a building to meet his gf. I think she was doing a runway show or something like that. Well a white truck with a yellow or red cab goes by and I am in the cab. You can't see the driver but it's definitely me because I remember driving by when they were making the film. I am not sure of the color of the cab because I haven't seen this movie in decades and my company I worked for had both yellow and white cabs at the time.
That’s cool. No sarcasm. Things like that have happened to me in los angeles as well.
Sweeet!
Of course he fell in love with her at first sight; she's a super girl.
I never see this one mentioned on RUclips, so thanks for watching it!
My mother and I have an enduring fondness for The Secret of My Success. It's one of those movies we missed at the theater but caught as soon as it was available to rent on VHS.
She gets a kick out of both "Oh Yeah" scenes. The scene by the pool always gets a big laugh, too. Brantley's horror at discovering just who it was that seduced him, contrasted with her amused delight that she's her new boy toy's "Auntie Vera" is hilarious.
It's funny that a movie which basically has zero special effects still suffers from the indignities of high definition TVs. When the pool scene flashed by in an instant on the big screen or was recorded on a roughly 333×480 resolution tape, you had to be at least a little eagle-eyed to spot Fox's nude briefs; on DVD or better, they're painfully obvious.
This is such a great movie. It was hard to find it for a bit at a decent price. I was glad that Netflix put it on their site. This version was based on something that Steven Spielberg actually did. He snuck on the Universal Lot and used an empty production office as his own. 13:15 Michael J Fox’s cousin in this movie married Howard’s nephew before she got bit & died so there’s no blood relation. Just related by marriage. 15:57 he was actually helping them make money by getting their product out by saying we have other options to get our stuff out. 18:04 she’s probably from a pool they have of assistants that fill in where needed. 18:57 it was risky for him to use any company amenities like the gym. His uncle could walk right in. 41:43 they bought 5% of the available stock which signals a takeover cause it gives them enough power to sway the board in their favor.
Glad I found this comment because I was thinking about posting it.
I don't know if this is really based on Spielberg's story, but when I was younger, I read this story about him and thought he was a bad azz. I think he and Lucas also started the jeans, sneakers, and basic shirt look of the new Hollywood director.
It was hard to pick the director out from the rest of the crew. Which I Think is what happened when Lucas went to England to shoot Star Wars: ANH. They saw this Yankee kid in jeans, sneakers, and a casual shirt and had never seen a director that looked like that, so very few people took him seriously... Until Star Wars became a blockbuster.
I think that was in Skywalking, the book about Lucas and his movie journey
This is the most underrated movie from the 80s. Michael J. Fox is perfect for this role, and does an AMAZING job. I love this movie so much. Thanks for the reaction.
That's David foster. Wrote the score for st. Elmos fire as well. 80s music. A good saxophone rift and a magic synthesizer. . .
"Oh Yeah" is a single released in 1985 by the band Yello and featured on their album Stella. The song features a mix of electronic music and manipulated vocals. The song gained popularity after being featured in the films Ferris Bueller's Day Off and The Secret of My Success, among other films. It is a popular staple in pop culture. "Chick, Chicka Chicka"😊
You need to acquire 5% of the outstanding stock & file a 13-D (w/ the SEC) which identifies the size of the holding, identifies the shareholder, and discusses the plans for the company. You still need over 50% of the vote to take over control (management) of the company or a majority of the voting stock/vote cast w/o abstaining, etc. depending on the situation.
All this has been done w/ little explanation as to why. (Easy to look up).
I haven't seen this is YEARS but it looks like I'm due a rewatch. I just love Michael J Fox so much, he's never boring and, like y'all said, hes just so gd charismatic! It's hard to pick a favourite scene aside from every scene he's in, but I can at least narrow it down to the scenes where he's scrambling to be Whitfield AND Brantley.
I haven't seen this movie in so long. Michael J. Fox is just pure gold. There were several funny moments I forgot about, like the neighbor sex-conductor scene where he cracks the beer. Just a great fun movie.
I love that this film is basically a farce, a traditional British theatre comedy style. Saw this in a seedy, rundown cinema with my ex just before we got engaged :)
I never thought about it that way but you're right, the scenes where he's scrambling between being Brantley and being Whitfield are especially British Comedy
Loved it when the gang from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia made an episode around this film.
Day-bow-bow.
Also birthday an awesome meme....
I freaking love this movie!! I saw this movie in my teenage years coming into the 2000s. Plus love the music 🎵 in this....so 80s ❤️😊
I *also* watched this numerous times growing up. I have _no_ idea why...and mostly forget it. Kinda excited to rewatch with y'all and stir some memories!
The actress who played the secretary, Jean, also did the voice of Mrs. Wolowicz on the Big Bang Theory. I believe the secretaries were in a pool and were paid through that in those days.
5:24 The dump actually IS New Jersey.
I loved this movie back when I was a kid. I think my favorite part was when he was being chased by his mail room supervisor. He passes Gene and he said "End of the second lap you still have a comfortable lead". I remember laughing hard for some reason at that. Perhaps it was because I was a huge race car fan. Such a classic 80's rom-com.
Greedy, For Love or Money (Rom-Com), Life With Mikey, Doc Hollywood and The Hard Way are some other fun movies with Michael J. Fox that you may enjoy. I always felt Secret of my Success was an underrated comedy....glad to see you do a reaction to this and glad you liked it.
At the time this movie was made, I believe Helen Slater and him were dating. Which explains the chemistry....
He also has a supporting role in a great Sorkin film, "The American President" - kind of a proto West Wing.
By the way I’m sure y’all get this all the time but it’s always cutest thing ever how you have the sitcom audience cheering every time your kid comes into the room
This story was reportedly inspired by the fact that Steven Spielberg took over an empty office at Universal when he had a low-level job there at the age of 17. There was an empty office with a working phone, and he allegedly moved himself in and started passing himself off as a Universal executive. Rather than getting fired, he was admired for his moxie. Different times.
I LOVED this movie up in Southern Ontario!!! Thanks for reacting to it and putting your own country charms in it as well!! It really did get better as the movie went on (typing this at 5:41...)
Oh Helen Slater...I guess SuperGirl killed you. I only remember you from that movie and this....just saying. It has a "feel good ending" Mr and Mrs...Trust me!!
Recommending:
Greedy (1994) - another fun Michael J. Fox comedy with an interesting premise.
Ruthless People (1986) - One of the best comedies of the '80s with the always enjoyable Helen Slater in a supporting role.
Love Ruthless People!
These suggestors keep bringing me back to this channel. Hopefully For Love Or Money (The Concierge) with Michael J Fox, is coming.
I saw this movie when it was in the theater back in 1986. It was fun to watch with a crowd.
I forgot that many women wore shoulder pads in their blouses back then. That reminds me of the 80's night time dramas. Good times.
They had what were called 'secretary pools' back then. Kinda of like floaters. When they needed someone to fill in when someone was sick or on vacation or for a new executive hire.
Its been forever and a day since I watched this one. It was a regular rotation movie as a kid. This movie is why I recognize Howard Wolowitz mother by voice.
As soon as his secretary opened the door I said, "Wolowitz's mom! I forgot she was in this!" We actually get to see her in this movie.
I've always liked this movie. I don't know why it's so underrated.
Great soundtrack and awesome story telling
This line always killed me...
"Brantley your young man! Young men have lots of energy! -Aunt Vera
Again this ch and its viewers are just like me. No one reacts to movies like this and this is one of my fav 80s movies.
This is one of my all time favorites. One of the big reasons I went to college with major in Business Management
I’m sure this was recommended when you did your first Michael J Fox movie. Glad you got around to it.
One of the first movies I copied with two VCRs back in the 80's. Must have watched it a hundred times. Glad to go for one hundred and one. 👍✌❤
I love the Sheriff from My Cousin Vinny telling him he wasted his time going to college.
Great movie. A great underrated serious Drama with Michael J Fox you should see is Casualties of War (1989) .Another great Michal J Fox movie is Teen Wolf and also you should see Helen Slater (Christy) in Supergirl 1984
Grandma Christi here. Teen Wolf is on my short list for October
That song was also used in Heinz Ketchup commercials back in the day.
If you have ever seen the movie 9-5 that room full of ladies working at typewriters, including Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, and “atta girl” are all part of the “secretary pool” That pool would be assigned typographical projects as they came down while its members (in rotation) would be temporarily assigned to be personal secretaries, perhaps receptionist, and either be permanently assigned and promoted , or returned to the pool after the duration was over.
The secretary Jean was the same actress who voiced Mrs. Wolowitz on The Big Bang Theroy.
I'm trying to think of other movies that scream the '80's' like this one. I'm glad to have grown up with 'less safe' comedy.
Fun fact, the lady who plays his Secretary is Carol Ann Susi who played Howard Wolowhiz’s unseen mother on the Big Bang Theory.
*Brantley's 5% buys out Donald Davenport himself as a majority shareholder. That means, in the past, Mr. Davenport had to sell most of his shares to keep his company afloat or to expand it, whilst keeping less than 5% to stay head of company. That 5% means Brantley can become head of Davenport Inc.*
Its not often easily understood that the “head” of a company need not own 50%plus one of the stocks just have more stock than and other individual or group of shareholders
I love Michael j fox i grew up watching his movies, and this one in particular was one of my favorites of him, thank you guys for bring it to the channel... and my recomendation is a movie that no other channel has been reacted before, directed by Peter Jackson (lords of the rings director) and starring Michael is: The Frighteners (1996) really good horror comedi film, you will like it
+1 for The Frighteners
I like your little Technical Difficulties. You have raised them well.
Carlton Whitfield was mentioned earlier in the film by his dad. He was the guy who went to New York and came back to Kansas with his head shaved and an earring in his cheek.
I still have this soundtrack from '87. Every song is a banger.
MJF's secretary (Carol Ann Susi) was the voice of Howard's mum in "The Big bang Theory".
my fav scene was the "I'm in the mood for looovvve, simply because you're near me" bit.
In my deep baritone voice: Ohhhh Yeah!
The frighteners, light of day, for love or money, and The hard way are a few other good MJF movies 🍿
@8:20 Missed a great opportunity to answer: "Next to you, every piece of art is ugly."
I haven’t seen this movie in a very long time and never thought about suggesting it for reactors.
Great pick!
The song is called Oh Yeah and is by Swiss duo Yello. I think it is also used in K9 and several other movies.
The secretary came from the "Steno pool". It used to be a thing in businesses where they had a pool of workers to be secretaries.
An underappreciated gem from David Foster & Night Ranger for your title song!
The whole movie is great.... especially the late Margaret Whiten.
I went to see this movie about three times back in the day.
Michael j fox has been my hero for 40 years xx love this movie ❤
I’ve never been to New York but it would be foolish for me to say I wouldn’t like it if I’ve never been there. Many small town people have gone there and loved it.
This is a good movie, the actor who played the uncle was so good. He was in Gettysburg.
Not many people have watched this on here. So thank you!.
I don't know what it is, but when he is posing in the elevator, I laugh non stop.
Lol, I'm 15 minutes into your reaction and I'm like, "When is he going to the little farm town? It's gotta be coming soon, right?" But, oh yeah, that was Doc Hollywood, which you already reacted to...
Big companies usually have no clue whos working where or doing what. Back in the 90s a company I was working for "forgot" me for 6 month. Didn't have a single assignment, but I was still paid. Was my first job, so I was quit inexperienced. After a month I just brought books I liked and read them.
According to info from IMDB the song "Oh, Yeah" has been used in 13 movies, 1 video game and episodes from 29 different TV shows. It was used in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, it was not used in Weird Science or Fast Time at Ridgemont High.
Helen Slater was such a beauty, and a very good actress. I wonder what ever happened to her. I only remember seeing her in this, Supergirl and that Billy Crystal comedy/ western City Slickers.
You've never seen her in "The Adventures of Billie Jean"? You are definitely missing something.
She was also in CW Supergirl series
Most people forget that she was in "City Slickers" ... she's been working consistently since the 80's & 90's ... a lot television roles and small movies. She also co-founded a New York based theatre group with Gina Gershon and co-founded an LA based theatre group in 1991. She's also written a book and released an album in 2003
"Ruthless People" with Danny Devito, Bette Midler and Judge Reinhold.
@@scorpiouk5914The Legend of Billie Jean! One of my favorites. “Fair is fair!”
This movie is a true time capsule of the 80’s. Seems like you guys enjoyed it for what it was.
*_Damn! I had forgotten this movie existe (Not because it is not good, it is excellent, but because it had been so long since I saw it or anything about it!). I think you might be the only reactors to have reacted to this movie._*
You should watch another great *_Michael J. Fox movie soon:_** Teen Wolf (1985)*
Grandma Christi here. I have that on my list as a possible for October
Brantley secretary was Howard's mother on The Big bang theory
There is a scene at the end of Brantley's initial phone call he picked up in the vacant office as he started pretending to be Whitfield that just before he hung up his hair was Michael's natural brown and a bit longer but every other scene in the movie has him with shirt dark red hair. I believe this was his initial screen test they simply left in the movie without reshooting it.
Art who always nitpicked about everything was played by (Gerry Bamman) who was also cheap Uncle Frank in Home Alone 1 & 2.
The actress who played Christie (Helen Slater) just a couple years prior played Super Girl on TV.
Brantley's Uncle (Richard Jordan) had co-starred opposite Michael York in the distopian future Logan's Run where he played a Sandman that terminates runners on last day.
The guy who was Brantley's friend in the mail room (John Pankow) two years prior was in the movie with William Petersen and Willem Defoe To Live and Die in LA (extremely violent, nudity) with the title song for the movie by Wang Chung. It's an awesome movie if you guys haven't seen it I highly recommend it if you get a chance.
Ron was from Coach and The Stand and is Patrick Star!!
M O O N, that spells "figures on transfer costs and insurance"
I love that this film came out in the same year as "Wall Street". It was sort of the romantic comedy response to it.
Hi Mr. & Mrs. Movies!🙂Sheila is the mom in "The Karate Kid" film. The elevator repair guy is the landlord in "Ace Ventura Pet Detective" and the assassin in "Scarface". Helen Slater was the lead in the 1984 "Supergirl" movie. Nice to see this often overlooked Michael J. Fox film. Great reactions to this fun 80s film, Kids!!!🎬👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
M-O-O-N that spells Success
the song the two of you were talking about was Oh Yeah by Yello, was also in the 1989 movie K-9 cop with Jim Belushi
The tall blonde, younger vice president is Dauber from the sitcom Coach or, as most people know him, Patrick Star from Spongebob Squarepants. 14:14 that dude holding the elevator.
“Donnie Brasco” ?
“A Bronx Tale” ? 🤔😂
One of my favourite films
Love Michael j fox
20:07 And the voice of Broadway on Gargoyles.
I love the soundtrack for this film. I have it on cassette somewhere. That, and the love interest is Helen Slater, the main character from the 1980s Supergirl movie. Great film.
Forgot which song it was (I think it was "Don't Ask The Reason Why" by Restless Heart, but not 100% sure) that was different on the soundtrack than what was in the film. My cassette is 2000 miles away in storage, so it's hard to check. All I remember is that the alternate lyrics on the cassette always threw me off when I listened to it because I knew movie version better from watching the film so much back in the day. Definitely one on my favorite soundtracks. As one of the "80's it girls" the three movies that always immediately come to mind are Secret of My Success, Supergirl, and Legend of Billie Jean when I think of Helen Slater, and then sometimes I'll also remember she was in Ruthless People and City Slickers.😊
Bright Lights, Big City would be a good follow-up for this reaction.
Oh man Sheila that waitress is Daniel LaRusso's (The Karate Kid) Mom!
Nope
Fun movie! A real throwback to the classic office romantic comedies of the 1960's. And David "Thd Hit Man" Foster's music and songs are great!
*New York City is the best city this side of the Milky Way galaxy.* It's like a bunch of small towns pushed up together. You won't hate it. You might not want to live there. But you definitely won't hate it.
38:43/The ladie that is playing the character of "Christy,The Office Bimbo",she was "SuperGir" in the 1980's!! ❤ ❤
When you accept the premise that nobody in that company knows what the hell they're doing, the logistics of how there can be a new exec with a secretary that nobody knows about makes more sense
This movie is responsible for me leaving my factory job in my Midwest hometown, moving West, getting my first "corporate" job in a mailroom, and eventually becoming a marketing professional. This is more than just a movie to me. To be fair, my aspirations were not as unrealistic, and there was no Uncle Howard or Aunty Vera, lol. 😆