The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)   The Hudsucker Proxy is a 1994
screwball comedy film written, produced, and directed by Joel
and Ethan Coen. Sam Raimi co-wrote the script and served as
second unit director. The film stars Tim Robbins as a naïve
business-school graduate who is installed as president of a
manufacturing company, Jennifer Jason Leigh as a newspaper
reporter, and Paul Newman as a company director who hires the
young man as part of a stock scam. The Coen brothers and Raimi
finished the script in 1985, but production did not start until
1991, when Joel Silver acquired the script for Silver Pictures.
Warner Bros. subsequently agreed to distribute the film, with
further financing coming from PolyGram Filmed Entertainment and
Working Title Films. Filming at Carolco Studios in Wilmington,
North Carolina lasted from November 1992 to March 1993. The New
York City scale model set was designed by Micheal J. McAlister
and Mark Stetson, with further effects provided by The Computer
Film Company. Upon its release