Working Girl 1988

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 109 min

genre: comedy-drama

theme: romantic comedy

director: Mike Nichols

Score: 6 / 10

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 working in mergers and acquisitions. The secretary, who has been going to business night school, pitches a profitable idea, only to have her new boss attempt to take credit. When her boss is laid up with a broken leg, she secretly takes over her boss's role to prove her capabilities in the corporate world.

Plot

Tess McGill is a working-class woman from Staten Island who dreams of climbing the corporate ladder to an executive position. Having earned a business degree via night school, she works as a secretary at a stockbroker firm in lower Manhattan. There, Tess's boss and male co-workers treat her like a bimbo, despite benefiting from her intelligence and business instincts. After one humiliation too many from her scornful boss, who fixes Tess up with a rival executive who only wants sex with her, she retaliates by posting on a VDT what she thinks of him and of what he's done. This greatly amuses Tess's colleagues, but also gets her fired.

Cast

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 help id lower manhattan meet night school radio network run 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 romantic drama screwball comedy