Working Girl
Working Girl is a 1988 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Mike Nichols, written by Kevin Wade, and starring Harrison Ford, Sigourney Weaver, and Melanie Griffith. Its plot follows an ambitious secretary from Staten Island who takes over her new boss's role while the boss is laid up with a broken leg. The secretary, who has been going to business night school, pitches a profitable idea, only to have the boss attempt to take credit.
Plot
Tess McGill is a working-class woman from Staten Island who dreams of climbing the corporate ladder to an executive position. Despite holding a business degree earned through evening classes, her boss and male co-workers at the stockbroker firm in lower Manhattan where she works as a secretary treat her like a bimbo, even though they benefit from her intelligence and business instincts. After reaching her limit with her boss's humiliations, Tess dramatically quits.
Cast
- Alec Baldwin
- Amy Aquino
- Caroline Aaron
- David Duchovny
- Elizabeth Whitcraft
- Harrison Ford
- Jeffrey Nordling
- Joan Cusack
- Kevin Spacey
- Marceline Hugot
- Melanie Griffith
- Nora Dunn
- Oliver Platt
- Olympia Dukakis
- Philip Bosco
- Ricki Lake
- Robert Easton
- Sigourney Weaver
- Suzanne Shepherd
- Timothy Carhart
- Zach Grenier
More details
| author | Kevin Wade |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | New York City |
| director | Mike Nichols |
| editor | Sam O'Steen |
| genre | comedy-drama social |
| keywords | bimbo career ladder climb clothe corporate ladder discover even help id lower manhattan meet morning new boss radio network ski staten island steal stockbroker stockbroker firm think work out |
| musicBy | Carly Simon |
| nomination | Academy Award for Best Actress Academy Award for Best Director Academy Award for Best Picture Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress |
| producer | Douglas Wick |
| productionCompany | 20th Century Fox |
| publisher | 20th Century Fox |
| theme | feminist romantic comedy screwball comedy |