Working Girl
by Mike Nichols
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Actor: Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, Joan Cusack, Melanie Griffith, Sigourney WeaverDirector: Mike Nichols
Brand: GRIFFITH,MELANIE
Cinematographer: Michael Ballhaus
Editor: Sam O'Steen
Producer: Douglas Wick
Producer: Laurence Mark
Producer: Robert Greenhut
Writer: Kevin Wade
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 113 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-04-17
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
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- Condition: New
- Format: DVD
- Color; DVD; Widescreen; NTSC
DVD Reviews of Working Girl
DVD Review: "I have a head for business and a bod for sin. Is there anything wrong with that?"
Summary: 5 Stars
Not that I've ever been chased around the desk by my horny boss or anything, but you have to be a right bastard to not sympathize with Tess McGill's plight. 30-year-old Tess is intelligent and is always thinking up big, bold ideas, but she languishes in the vast secretarial pool of a brokerage firm. Not blessed with the right upbringing, she takes night courses to better herself. But her buxom blonde looks tend to get her the chauvinistic treatment from her superiors.
And this even applies to her high-powered new boss, Katherine Parker. Katherine - played with forked-tongued smugness by Sigourney Weaver - smarms up to Tess that their working relationship is a two-way street, but Katherine has no compunctions about hijacking Tess's brilliant business idea and claiming credit. When Katherine breaks her leg on a skiing trip and has to spend time away from work, and when Tess learns of Katherine's duplicity, the awesome revenge is on.
WORKING GIRL is hands down Melanie Griffith's best movie, and it takes full advantage of her past roles as a sexy femme fatale - most notably in SOMETHING WILD and BODY DOUBLE - to frame Tess in juxtaposition. As Tess herself admits: "I have a head for business and a bod for sin." Made in the '80s, in the heyday of unapologetic big hair and huge shoulder padded jackets, the film may look dated, but the story is one of those timeless ones. Coming after 9 TO 5, WORKING GIRL is also a gender reversing of THE SECRET OF MY SUCCESS, although Michael J. Fox was never perceived as anywhere near to being a sex symbol. Melanie Griffith is again objectified, but her aching vulnerability here and sense of humor and gumption in the face of obstinacy and blatant prejudice make her someone you mightily root for.
Her transformation from tackily bejeweled secretary to posh executive feels organic, partly because the film takes time to demonstrate Tess's potential but mostly because Griffith instills an awkwardness and nervousness in her character, and this tension shines whenever she's putting on the deception. Tess knows that she's reaching for the moon, and she's frightened but appealingly determined. She knows she deserves better - her skills qualify her for a better lot in life - than a sleazoid boyfriend and a dead-end career. Well, damn, it's the American dream. Tess is forced to get by on advice such as: "You wanna be taken seriously, you need serious hair."
It doesn't hurt that Sigourney Weaver is so terrific as the sophisticated two-faced heel. Griffith and Weaver (and, come to think of it, Joan Cusack) are so good they were nominated, justifiably so, for, respectively, the 1988's Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress awards (none of them won, although Carly Simon's towering anthem "Let the River Run" did win for Best Song). Director Mike Nichols makes sure that, acting-wise, Griffith isn't stranded on an island. She gets very good support from Alec Baldwin and the always wonderful Joan Cusack. Harrison Ford, thoughtfully charming and slightly world-weary, plays Jack Trainer, the investment broker she partners with in her wild scheme, although I must say Ford gets involved in one of the more far-fetched plot twists in the movie. Kevin Spacey cameos as a corporate Romeo.
WORKING GIRL is joyful and hopeful, and it's got one of the most feel good endings I've ever seen on film. It's not often nowadays that Melanie Griffith comes to mind, but whenever she does, this is the movie I picture her in. I know she was excellent in SOMETHING WILD, but Tess McGill is absolutely her role of a lifetime, and as Tess she is beautiful and scared and gutsy and ultimately triumphant. WORKING GIRL, with its clever script and sure-handed direction and wonderful performances, is the classic cinematic embodiment of female empowerment in the work room. 9 TO 5 can kiss my @ss.
But did anyone else get that injoke of Katherine Parker emerging from the helicorter lugging around a huge stuffed-doll gorilla?
Description of Working Girl
No Description Available.Genre: Feature Film-Comedy
Rating: NR
Release Date: 10-APR-2007
Media Type: DVD
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