Kevin Wade’s lively and funny screenplay gives Melanie Griffith the best role of her career.
Working Girl (1988)
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Reviews Counted:35
Fresh:29
Rotten:6
Average Rating:6.7/10
Runtime: 1 hr 55 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: A young secretary (Melanie Griffith in an Oscar-nominated performance) with dreams of moving up the corporate ladder thinks that her brains will help her achieve her goals. And when she finds a job... A young secretary (Melanie Griffith in an Oscar-nominated performance) with dreams of moving up the corporate ladder thinks that her brains will help her achieve her goals. And when she finds a job with a seemingly helpful and sympathetic boss--who's also a woman (played by Sigourney Weaver)--it looks as if she's on her way. But it turns out the executive is slimy and duplicitous, stealing the secretary's clever ideas to further her own career. Now the furious secretary's determined to get revenge--and her plan may not only propel her to the top of the heap but get her a husband too (Harrison Ford). Mike Nichols directed this workplace comedy with a light, smart touch, getting terrific performances from his excellent cast. [More]
Starring: Melanie Griffith, Sigourney Weaver, Harrison Ford, Alec Baldwin
Starring: Melanie Griffith, Sigourney Weaver, Harrison Ford, Alec Baldwin, Joan Cusack, Philip Bosco, Nora Dunn, Oliver Platt, Olympia Dukakis, Kevin Wade
Director: Mike Nichols
Director: Mike Nichols
Producer: Douglas Wick
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Reviews for Working Girl
Working Girl is Nichols returning to the top of his form, and Griffith finding hers.
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."
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.
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).
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.
Griffith's talent, energy, and sexiness give it some drive and punch.
It deliciously plays out as a modern day corporate Cinderella story for females.
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.
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.
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!
Uma fábula engraçadinha e bem dirigida, o filme traz Harrison Ford e Sigourney Weaver em ótima forma – mas é inacreditável que Melanie Griffith tenha sido indicada ao Oscar por um desempenho tão convencional.
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