Genre:
Romantic Comedy
Directed
by: Mike Nichols
Cast:
Harrison Ford, Sigourney Weaver, Melanie Griffith
Running
time: 114 minutes
Tess McGill is a young secretary with loads
of ideas and big aspirations for something more career-wise. When her boss ends
up in the hospital with a broken leg after a skiing accident, Tess decides to
take advantage of the situation and of her employer’s connections to arrange a merger
deal.
I still fail to see why this film received so
many accolades. Yes, the story is somewhat compelling and the acting work done
by all parties involved is decent, but I found this film cheesy and
predictable. Maybe a movie that was 80’s to its very core simply did not age
well. Maybe it was great when seen in that era.
That whole section in the middle, where Tess
is seen in various shots looking away in the distance, deep in her thoughts,
with the overly sentimental music in the background; I found that so laughable,
it took me right out of the movie for a while.
When seen today, Working Girl is an OK film.
Wish I had seen it when computers, hairdos and makeup looked like they did in
that movie. At least, this film had something to say; a decent message about women in the workplace.
Rating:
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