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 (Melanie Griffith) is an ambitious, working class 30-year-old from Staten Island with a bachelor's degree in business that she earned by taking evening classes. She works as a stockbroker's secretary in lower Manhattan, aspiring to reach an executive position. Tess is treated like a bimbo by her boss and male co-workers, who nonetheless benefit from her intelligence and business instincts. Fed up with being humiliated by her boss, Tess quits in dramatic fashion.
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 | clothe discover even help id lower manhattan meet misgive new job radio network radio station ski staten island think wed work out working class |
| 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 | romantic comedy screwball comedy |