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A Shock to the System

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Rated: R; Genre: Comedy; With: Michael Caine, Elizabeth McGovern and Peter Riegert

Jan Egleson's black comedy, A Shock to the System, is a satire of greed and power that's also one of the most enticingly intimate portraits of American corporate life ever put on screen. Michael Caine's performance as a vengeful New York advertising executive inspires incredible empathy, even as it draws you into deeper and deeper levels of amoral glee. Peter Riegert plays Caine's loathsome antagonist. A

Posted Sep 21, 1990

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