Marshall hence ponders how he can create more "accidents" for not only his business colleagues (who have become his competitors), but also his wife, Leslie (Swoosie Kurtz). When Marshall discovers that the death is ruled a suicide rather than manslaughter, he feels the same jolt of energy that he first got when trying to fix the electricity in the basement at the beginning. A despondent Marshall heads for the subway but is harried by a panhandler who he inadvertently pushes under a train. A reason for Brewster's exit is a corporate takeover (a hint of the fledgling multinationals). Benham has replaced the beleaguered George Brewster (John McMartin), who is forced into retirement. When he learns that the position has gone to upstart yuppie Robert Benham (Peter Riegert), Marshall becomes flabbergasted and enraged at the decision. Marshall has worked hard over the years as an advertising executive on Wall Street and is eager to hear if he will receive a promotion to head of the ad agency's department. Michael Caine's Graham Marshall is the embodiment of this outcry in the film. (Corsair Pictures, the movie's distributor, plastered this large quote from critic Eleanor Ringel's review that originally appeared in the Atlanta Journal and Constitution.) It speaks to all the backstabbing and one-upmanship that corporate yuppies had engaged in with each other both figuratively and literally since the early eighties. "Here's a film for anyone who ever muttered, "DIE YUPPIE SCUM!" So the headline screamed at the top of promotional posters for Jan Egleson's American feature-film debut, A Shock to the System. Raising Caine to the Top of Corporate Ranks
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