The Secret of My Success

The Secret of My Success (1987) is a Herbert Ross comedy you can watch online on iFILM. Michael J. Fox plays a fresh Kansas graduate who lands in New York with a diploma and almost no cash.

Brantley Foster came east to build a finance career, but the firm that hired him got swallowed by a rival overnight and the offer vanished. His uncle, who runs a sprawling corporation, hands him a job in the mailroom instead. So Brantley invents a second self. By day he pushes the mail cart; on the side he claims an empty office, prints a name on the door and passes himself off as a hotshot young executive.

Helen Slater, Margaret Whitton and Richard Jordan round out the boardroom chaos, with Fox juggling two identities, a romance and a scheme that could collapse in a single elevator ride. It is breezy 1980s wish-fulfillment, scored by that Night Ranger title track everyone remembers. Stream The Secret of My Success (1987) online on iFILM.