As much as I like Michael J. Fox then this movie just didn't really sit well with me. Why? Well, simply because it wasn't particularly funny and because the story was just too unrealistic to the point where it was just too much.The story is about an ambitious young man (played by Michael J. Fox) who has moved from Kansas to New York. But when his promised job fails to come through, he is forced to take on a job at his uncle's company starting out in the mailroom. And while the boss's wife falls in love with him and he falls in love with a young executive, things quickly get messed up.Sure, the story had potential, but buying into the fact that someone in the mailroom could pass as an executive without anyone raising an eyebrow was just too far out there - too unrealistic.While Michael J. Fox performed well in "The Secret of My Succe$s", then he actually had very little to work with in terms of script and storyline.What is impressive, though, is the cast list with so many familiar faces, even in relatively small roles.All in all, not a memorable movie, and I didn't even laugh a single time throughout the course of the entire movie.

The movie wasn't really that good to me. I don't think a man could ever go into an non-owned office and go ahead and take control of it without being hired. The movie is just nothing, but people cheating on each other and a form of incest which made me very uncomfortable to watch this movie. In-laws or not it is not okay to mess with your in-laws. This movie was absolutely ridiculous to me. I just don't like old school movies from older times. I was trying to keep an open mind, but to me the movie was not that great, and neither was the acting. In conclusion, anything like this to get filmed again in the future should be a lot more realistic and possibly have better music in the film. The music and plots was just flat out insane.

Huge box-office hit for star Michael J. Fox is really just an extension of his role on TV's "Family Ties"...and maybe that's all his fans wanted (after all, Fox's dramatic performance from earlier in the year with "Light of Day" was outright ignored). Under the ridiculously yuppie-fied character name of Brantley Foster, Fox plays a Midwestern kid with a degree in finance who relocates to the Big Apple but finds himself stuck in the mailroom of his uncle's corporation; with some light deception, our hero climbs the ranks of success, eventually attracting the eye of his uncle's wanton wife--the daughter of the corporation's founder. This may be the worst movie Herbert Ross ever directed. With a shallow screenplay worked on by three writers, "Secret" raises a few laughs early on before becoming a dated 'corporate satire' which doesn't even look good. Helen Slater's potential love-interest suits Fox well, but her character's indignation is pure formula, as is the "Graduate"-like subplot underscored by Yello's obnoxious "Oh Yeah!" * from ****

Except maybe the red lamp on Michael J. Fox's table at his New York appartement: it's totally Seventies.This movie is a very light, very enjoyable, a veritable document of the upbeat economic spirit that created the cesspool we're currently swimming through. College boy from Kansas arrives at the big city, loses his job before starting it, and still makes it big whilst shagging the boss's wife while he's at it. Great use of Yello's Oh Yeah track. Simply astounding cinematography.And lots of Texas big hair.Overall, a flashy, light, entertaining movie. Nuff said.