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Working Girl (1988) -- When a secretary's idea is stolen by her boss, she seizes an opportunity to steal it back by pretending she has her boss's job.
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Overview

User Rating:
6.6/10   17,878 votes
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Director:
Writer (WGA):
Kevin Wade (written by)
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Release Date:
21 December 1988 (USA) more
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For anyone who's ever won. For anyone who's ever lost. And for everyone who's still in there trying.
Plot:
When a secretary's idea is stolen by her boss, she seizes an opportunity to steal it back by pretending she has her boss's job. full summary | full synopsis
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Awards:
Won Oscar. Another 6 wins & 13 nominations more
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(49 articles)
Cancer Scare For Griffith
 (From WENN. 17 December 2009, 5:31 PM, PST)

Melanie Griffith undergoes cancer treatment
 (From Monsters and Critics. 17 December 2009, 4:50 PM, PST)

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Career Women with Big Ideas and Even Bigger Hair more (88 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Harrison Ford ... Jack Trainer

Sigourney Weaver ... Katharine Parker

Melanie Griffith ... Tess McGill

Alec Baldwin ... Mick Dugan

Joan Cusack ... Cyn
Philip Bosco ... Oren Trask

Nora Dunn ... Ginny

Oliver Platt ... Lutz
James Lally ... Turkel

Kevin Spacey ... Bob Speck

Robert Easton ... Armbrister

Olympia Dukakis ... Personnel Director
Amy Aquino ... Tess' Secretary

Jeffrey Nordling ... Tim Rourke
Elizabeth Whitcraft ... Doreen DiMucci
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113 min
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An original trailer featured a scene and dialogue not used in the film. It features Tess and her friend Cyn preparing for Cyn's wedding and talking about Tess's relationship with Jack. more
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Continuity: Cyn's eyeshadow when she's visiting Tess at the office and pretending to be her secretary: the middle stripe of gold-ish color changes size. more
Quotes:
Tess McGill: You know, maybe I just don't like you.
Jack Trainer: Me? Naaah!
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POOR BUTTERFLY more

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3 out of 4 people found the following review useful.
Career Women with Big Ideas and Even Bigger Hair, 27 July 2008
8/10
Author: brocksilvey from United States

A pure fantasy served up by Mike Nichols, but a vastly entertaining one.

Melanie Griffith is the secretary with massive hair who pretends to be a corporate business woman when her boss is layed up with a broken leg. The catch is, she finds out she's pretty good at it, and things get complicated when she ends up spearheading a business deal and falling in love with her key partner (Harrison Ford), all the while trying to keep what she's doing from her boss (Sigourney Weaver). It's the kind of movie that could just as easily have been made as a screwball comedy in the 1940s, perhaps with Barbara Stanwyck in the lead role.

The film is a classic in its own small way, one of the best comedies to emerge from the 1980s. Griffith is matched well with her role, so her limitations as an actress don't draw too much attention to themselves. But it's Weaver who steals the show as Griffith's imperious boss. She's a riot as a confident and powerful career woman from hell. And Joan Cusack steals a few scenes of her own as Griffith's best friend and fellow secretary, who sports hair as big as Griffith's and a Joisy accent to boot.

Nichols knows how to direct a comedy so that the funny bits speak for themselves.

Grade: A

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For cryin out loud...wipe the mayo off your face Harrison!!! Rakinik
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