A Shock to the System (1990)
Michael Caine as an executive who discovers he can kill his way to the top and nobody will notice. A Shock to the System is the Jan Egleson-directed dark comedy adapted from Simon Brett's 1984 novel of the same title.
Actor: Peter Riegert
Peter Riegert played Boon in Animal House and then the lead in Local Hero, a Scottish film about an oil executive gradually seduced by a village he is meant to buy, which is his best work by a distance.
Crossing Delancey and The Mask fill out the range, and he has directed and been nominated for an Academy Award for a short film. He works regularly in New York theatre.
