When Waring Hudsucker, head of hugely successful Hudsucker Industries, commits suicide, his board of directors, led by Sidney Mussberger, comes up with a brilliant plan to make a lot of money: appoint a moron to run the company. When the stock falls low enough, Sidney and friends can buy it up for pennies on the dollar, take over the company, and restore its fortunes. They choose idealistic Norville Barnes, who just started in the mail room. Norville is whacky enough to drive any company to ruin, but soon, tough reporter Amy Archer smells a rat and begins an undercover investigation of Hudsucker Industries.
In a dream, you see a woman dancing wearing a leotard.
A cartoon drawing of a man mooning the audience.
A man smacks a woman's butt.
violence
Some very mild fighting between multiple characters; no blood at all, and it is all very mild.
The only notable scene of violence is that in the first five minutes of the movie a man jumps from a 40th-ish story window and is seen cartoonishly falling before landing offscreen. A bystanding woman then screams.
profanity
Very mild. 3 uses of "damn". 1 ass. 1 bastard. 6 uses of "oh my god" or "my god".
alcohol
Nearly all the characters smoke either cigars or cigarrettes. Liquor drinks are used through out the flim.
frightening
The suicide in the beginning is shot in a very unsuspenseful way, and it makes it very absurd and offbeat, which makes it fairly disturbing. All characters seem to be purposely stereotypical, which makes human life slightly less valuable. With these two elements, it is a sarcastic movie, but it's not objectional enough to be rated higher than PG. Being targeted toward intelligent film-goers however, it is not primarily for kids, although that doesn't mean it's inappropriate.
