While on a date with Stella Henderson, a female employee who is romantically interested in him, he spikes her drink with some of the downers and waits until she passes out. First he rents a car using George's corporate account and procures a bottle of heavy downers from an office courier who deals drugs. After her death, he gets more ambitious and plans to get rid of Bob. Recalling an incident in which he was almost fatally electrocuted by faulty wiring in his basement, he arranges for Leslie to have a similar accident. Marshall is able to leave unobserved, which unexpectedly elates him.ĭeciding to take revenge on the people who have made his life miserable, Marshall starts meticulously planning their deaths. In a fit of rage, Graham pushes him hard enough that he falls on the subway tracks and gets run over by an oncoming train.
An aggressive panhandler harasses him for being so rich and ungenerous. The night of the missed promotion, Graham is waiting for his train on the subway. His greedy, self-absorbed wife Leslie is devastated and continually reproaches her husband for his apparent lack of ambition and willpower. While he sympathizes with his friend George Brewster, whose dismissal in the midst of a corporate takeover created the open position, Marshall is angry and disappointed. Graham Marshall, a long-time executive in a large advertising company, is unexpectedly passed over for promotion in favor of his obnoxious younger rival Bob Benham. The film was released on Maand received generally positive reviews from critics. It is based on the 1984 novel A Shock to the System by British author Simon Brett.
A Shock to the System is a 1990 American black comedy film directed by Jan Egleson and starring Michael Caine, Swoosie Kurtz, Elizabeth McGovern, and Peter Riegert.
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