Corporate Characters
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Corporate Characters

Corporate culture is a constantly recurring theme in American movies. Whether they're hiring or firing, rising or tanking, how would you rate these business-minded roles?

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1 Michael Douglas
In Wall Street, Gordon Gekko (Douglas) is an unscrupulous financial honcho who corrupts his protégé.
36 96
2 Meryl Streep
A newbie assistant (Anne Hathaway) does her best to appease her hellish boss (Streep) in The Devil Wears Prada.
27 99
3 Gregory Peck
In The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, a family man (Peck) decides between a lucrative job or quality time at home.
9 69
4 Paul Newman
In The Hudsucker Proxy, a corporate board member (Newman) promotes a drone to president in order to manipulate stocks.
9 71
5 Alec Baldwin
Baldwin stars as the messenger of harsh layoff news at a real estate firm in David Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross.
8 80
6 Tom Hanks
In Bonfire of the Vanities, a Wall Street investor (Hanks) and his mistress are vilified for a hit-and-run accident.
-3 65
7 Michael J. Fox
Fox stars as an enterprising mailroom clerk in The Secret of My Success. He climbs the ranks via an alter ego.
-4 64
8 Sigourney Weaver
An executive (Weaver) goes from cool boss to evil boss after poaching her secretary’s idea in Working Girl.
-4 70
9 Tim Robbins
In The Player, Robert Altman’s satire of Hollywood, Robbins plays a studio executive who kills an aspiring screenwriter.
-8 64
10 Dan Aykroyd
As the unwitting subject in a social experiment, a businessman (Aykroyd) finds himself on the street in Trading Places.
-12 46
11 Tom Cruise
In The Firm, a bright young lawyer (Cruise) discovers his swanky firm is corrupt with a capital “c.”
-14 68
12 Diane Keaton
When an orphan is charged to her care, a career woman (Diane Keaton) reevaluates her priorities in Baby Boom.
-15 59
13 Robert Morse
Sky’s the limit for an ambitious window-washer (Morse) in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.
-17 59