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Working Girl (1988)

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Average Rating: 7.2/10
Critic Reviews: 7
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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

R, 1 hr. 55 min.

Drama, Romance, Comedy

Apr 17, 2001

20th Century Fox

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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.

January 13, 2010 Full Review Source: TIME Magazine | Comment
TIME Magazine
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Griffith's talent, energy, and sexiness give it some drive and punch.

May 27, 2008 Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | Comment
Chicago Reader
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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.

May 27, 2008 Full Review Source: Variety | Comment
Variety
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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.

May 20, 2003 Full Review Source: New York Times | Comment
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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.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Washington Post | Comment
Washington Post
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Working Girl is Nichols returning to the top of his form, and Griffith finding hers.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Chicago Sun-Times | Comment
Chicago Sun-Times
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Sexed-up '80s corporate tale with stellar cast.

December 18, 2010 Full Review Source: Common Sense Media | Comment
Common Sense Media

It deliciously plays out as a modern day corporate Cinderella story for females.

November 13, 2008 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | Comment
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

Funny, touching and tremendously buoyant, this is a feel-good movie with smarts.

May 27, 2008 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | Comment
TV Guide's Movie Guide

A top-drawer romantic comedy with all the right ingredients in place.

May 27, 2008 Full Review Source: Film4 | Comment

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).

February 29, 2008 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com | Comment

80s corporate hokum rescued by another very funny turn from Sigourney Weaver.

May 13, 2007 Comment
Flipside Movie Emporium

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."

August 1, 2006 Full Review Source: Not Coming to a Theater Near You | Comment
Not Coming to a Theater Near You

The interaction between the female leads is so funny that you don't care if the leading man never turns up.

January 26, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out | Comment

Wait... Sigourney Weaver and Harrison Ford can be funny? And Melanie Griffith can act? Crazy!

September 10, 2005 Comment
Zap2it.com

blah comedy, but with nice performers

May 28, 2005 Comment
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Audience Reviews for Working Girl

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, 2008
hobster1

Super Reviewer

Great film, a modern classic no less. Olympia Dukakis is such a funny name! :o)

September 23, 2009
SirPant

Super Reviewer

    1. Jack Trainer: We haven't been invited to this thing have we?
    2. Tess McGill: Not exactly, but that makes us...
    3. Jack Trainer: Total idiots!
    4. Tess McGill: At the right place at the right time.
    – Submitted by sean b (2 months ago)
    1. Oren Trask: Ms Parker, if I were you I'd take a look at your office because it'll be your last. Now get your... what was it you called it?
    2. Tess McGill: Bony ass.
    3. Oren Trask: Right! Bony ass out of my sight!
    – Submitted by sean b (2 months ago)
    1. Mick Dugan: Tess, will you marry me?
    2. Tess McGill: Maybe.
    3. Mick Dugan: Ya call that an answer?
    4. Tess McGill: You want another answer, ask another girl.
    – Submitted by Hanna K (5 months ago)
    1. Tess McGill: You know, maybe I just don't like you.
    2. Jack Trainer: Me? Naaah!
    – Submitted by Hanna K (5 months ago)
    1. Jack Trainer: These things are usually so boring.
    2. Tess McGill: [giggling]
    – Submitted by Hanna K (5 months ago)

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