Brantley Foster is a recent graduate of Kansas State University who moves to New York City, where he has accepted an entry-level job as a financier. Upon arriving, he discovers that the company for which he is supposed t… See more

• Michael J. Fox as Brantley Foster/Carlton Whitfield
• Helen Slater as Christy Wills
• Richard Jordan as Howard Prescott
• Margaret Whitton as Vera Pemrose Prescott… See more

The soundtrack was released on LP and cassette tape on April 10, 1987. Seven of the 10 tracks were produced, and either written or co-written, by David Foster, who also scored the film and has three tracks of his own on … See more

The film received a mixed response from critics. Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times wrote, "The Secret of My Success seems trapped in some kind of time warp, as if the screenplay had been in a drawer since the 1… See more