Working Girl (1988)

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.

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