Working Girl (1988)
Genre: Comedy / Drama
Duration: 109 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Mike Nichols
Stars: Melanie Griffith, Harrison Ford and Sigourney Weaver
IMDb score:
6,8 (68.960)
Releasedate: 20 December 1988
Working Girl plot
"For anyone who's ever won. For anyone who's ever lost. And for everyone who's still in there trying."
Tess is a secretary who wants to move up the ladder. She comes to work for the successful businesswoman Katherine who values Tess for her good business ideas and insight. She promises her that if she continues like this she will help Tess to make a career. But during a ski trip, Katherine breaks her leg and Tess learns that Katherine has taken her idea to take the credit herself. Tess then decides to pretend to be Katherine's coworker, who has been knocked out for a while, and invades the grueling business world by closing an important deal with the help of businessman Jack Trainer.
Actors and actresses
Tess McGill
Jack Trainer
Katharine Parker
Mick Dugan
Cyn
Oren Trask
Ginny
Lutz
Turkel
Bob Speck
Reviews & comments
Movsin
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- 8472 messages
- 8513 votes
When in the opening scene the ridiculous hairstyle of Melanie Griffith and Joan Cusack as well as Griffith's annoying voice set the tone, I wasn't really expecting this film, but gradually I can admit that the film has a certain charm, it looks away smoothly , still contains a portion of humor, the intrigue is amusing and acceptably constructed and in the end the three main actors support the film considerably. Also good adapted music.
A contradiction is indeed that the film won an Oscar, admittedly "but" for the music, but that the actors were also famously lauded, at least nominated, and that on the other hand the appreciation scores, also at IMDB, are fairly low.
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scorsese
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- 13671 messages
- 11438 votes
Good film in which an ambitious secretary oversees her boss's affairs when he has a broken leg. A well-developed story in which a woman wants to make it in the big city. In terms of decoration, it is typically a product of its time (although it was probably also a bit exaggerated for that time). The three protagonists do a great job and secretly quite a few well-known names in the supporting roles. Absolutely entertaining, but my initial 4.0 stars are a bit too ambitious.
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Filmkriebel
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- 10326 messages
- 4837 votes
If there is nothing to complain about, then a high score is in order. Such is the case with Working Girl, a modern fairy tale about a naive young woman who wants to make it in the workplace; the opportunity arises when her mistress ends up at the clinic after a skiing accident and she prepares an important deal on her own. It's feel-good all over with some rom-com in between, but with a cast like this it was doubly enjoyable. Sigourney Weaver as a bitchy boss (or evil queen) and Harrison Ford as a sympathetic misogynist (or charming prince) really fell for me. Spacey's supporting role at the very beginning of the film is striking. It's true that it's a very caricatured portrayal of business life, but that didn't bother me. Why would you lose sleep over this in a movie like this? It is simply the intention that this class struggle between lower and higher functions comes to the fore in all sorts of ways.
Definitely predictable (so there was no doubt that Jack was also the boss's friend ) and in terms of humor it was never really over the top, but it was amazingly well scripted and you empathize with Tess. Narrow 4*
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