When the head of a major corporation commits suicide, his scheming vice president plots to appoint an idiotic replacement, thinking this will reduce the company's share values and allow him to buy them all. A naive mailroom employee with grand dreams seems like the ideal candidate - but the unwitting stooge's invention proves a roaring success. Coen brothers comedy, starring Tim Robbins and Paul Newman.

A naive business graduate is installed as president of a manufacturing company as part of a stock scam.