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There's no such thing as an overnight success. Brantley Foster took two weeks.
Movie · 6.5 / 10 · 697 ratings · 10 Apr 1987 · English · 1h 51m · Released
Brantley Foster, a well-educated kid from Kansas, has always dreamed of making it big in New York City, but once there, he learns that jobs - and girls - are hard to get. When he visits his uncle, Howard Prescott, who runs a multi-million-dollar company, he is given a job in the mail room.
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