A Shock to the System

A Shock to the System

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Corporate Ladder | New York City

  • Duration: 1h 31min
  • Music: Gary Chang
  • Award(s): Critics 1990 (Nominated) Awards List
  • Similar To: The Thursday Murder Club, Medusa Deluxe
  • Story:
    Madison Avenue executive Graham Marshall has paid his dues. A talented and devoted worker, he has suffered through mounting bills and a nagging wife with one thing to look forward to: a well-deserved promotion. But when the promotion is given to a loud-mouthed yuppie associate, Graham unleashes his rage on an overly aggressive panhandler, who he accidently kills by pushing him into the path of an oncoming subway train. He re-thinks his problems with an entirely new solution. First, he arranges an "accident" for his annoying wife. Then he creates another "mishap" for his boss. It seems like the world is once more Graham's oyster…but a missing cigarette lighter and a prying police detective may change all that.
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6.6/10
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STORY AND RATINGS

Story
Madison Avenue executive Graham Marshall has paid his dues. A talented and devoted worker, he has suffered through mounting bills and a nagging wife with one thing to look forward to: a well-deserved promotion. But when the promotion is given to a loud-mouthed yuppie associate, Graham unleashes his rage on an overly aggressive panhandler, who he accidently kills by pushing him into the path of an oncoming subway train. He re-thinks his problems with an entirely new solution. First, he arranges an "accident" for his annoying wife. Then he creates another "mishap" for his boss. It seems like the world is once more Graham's oyster…but a missing cigarette lighter and a prying police detective may change all that.
Ratings

6.6/10

IMDb

AWARDS

Nominations
Critics Award

1990 | Jan

TRIVIA AND POPULAR DIALOGUES

Trivia

Michael Caine said of this movie in a 2002 interview with "Venice Magazine", "That was a lovely little film, but it was too small for its own good, really. It got lost. It was the sort of film, were it made today, that would be great as a film for HBO, or something. But at the time, it just got lost in the system."

Though a theatrical film, it went straight-to-video in some markets.

Roger Ebert described this movie as being "Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) crossed with Wall Street (1987)".

In the scene where Lt. Laker (Will Patton) is talking to Graham (Michael Caine) on his front porch after the funeral, there is a large spider crawling on his arm.

Vincent Pastore can be seen as an extra, shoving past Michael Caine at Grand Central Station at the beginning of the movie.

Popular Dialogues

"Lieutenant Laker: He was your superior, wasn't he? Graham Marshall: No, he was my boss."

"Graham Marshall: I've never understood why you need a stair *machine* when we have stairs! Leslie Marshall: Because I have to keep going up, silly! If I had to keep going down, I'd lose the whole aerobic benefit."

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