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Unhappy with her job and her loser boyfriend, Melanie Griffith takes a secretarial post at a major Wall Street firm. Her boss is Sigourney Weaver, an outwardly affable yuppie whose grinning visage hides a wicked and larcenous propensity for exploiting the ideas of her employees. While Weaver is incapacitated, Griffith is compelled by circumstances to pose as her boss. Her inborn business acumen and common sense enable Griffith to rise to the top of New York's financial circles, and along the way
Dec 20, 1988 Wide
Apr 17, 2001
20th Century Fox
All Critics (37) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (31) | Rotten (6) | DVD (13)
How will the working class be educated to survive and thrive in the computer age? This intoxicating movie has an answer: let her strut her outer-borough wisdom from Wall Street to the Pacific Rim. Watch her fatten portfolios as she melts hearts.
Griffith's talent, energy, and sexiness give it some drive and punch.
Working Girl is enjoyable largely due to the fun of watching scrappy, sexy, unpredictable Melanie Griffith rise from Staten Island secretary to Wall Street whiz.
Working Girl, always fun even when at its most frivolous, has the benefit of the cinematographer Michael Ballhaus's sharp visual sense of board room chic, and of supporting characters who help carry its class distinctions beyond simple caricature.
This scrumptious romantic comedy with its blithe cast is as easy to watch as swirling ball gowns and dancing feet. But oh me, oh my, how much more demanding it is to be a fairy tale heroine these days.
Working Girl is Nichols returning to the top of his form, and Griffith finding hers.
Sexed-up '80s corporate tale with stellar cast.
It deliciously plays out as a modern day corporate Cinderella story for females.
Funny, touching and tremendously buoyant, this is a feel-good movie with smarts.
A top-drawer romantic comedy with all the right ingredients in place.
In Mike Nichols' fairy tale about the workforce, Melanie Griffith gives a charming performance as an absued scretary who decides to take charge of her life and in the process also gets the lover of her bitchy boss (well played by Sigourney Weaver).
80s corporate hokum rescued by another very funny turn from Sigourney Weaver.
The film lobbies passionately for Tess's agency, intelligence, and shrewd business-sense and yet still manages to find time to ogle her "bod for sin."
The interaction between the female leads is so funny that you don't care if the leading man never turns up.
Wait... Sigourney Weaver and Harrison Ford can be funny? And Melanie Griffith can act? Crazy!
blah comedy, but with nice performers
Captivating workplace comedy follows an ambitious secretary as she attempts to climb the corporate ladder. Plot unfolds like the somewhat timeworn Cinderella story archetype, but brilliantly captures the zeitgeist by updating it to corporate America of the 1980s. Melanie Griffith is an absolute delight in an
June 28, 2008Super Reviewer
Great film, a modern classic no less. Olympia Dukakis is such a funny name! :o)
September 23, 2009Super Reviewer
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