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Working Girl [1988]
from 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
starring Sigourney Weaver, Harrison Ford, Melanie Griffith, Alec Baldwin, Joan Cusack
directed by Mike Nichols

Features:

• PAL

Editorial Review:

In the ensuing years since Working Girl was released, Harrison Ford has never given such a charming and witty performance, Sigourney Weaver hasn’t been given quite the same kind of scenery-chewing role, and Melanie Griffith simply hasn’t got near doing anything this good again. And yet in Mike Nichols’ excellent romantic comedy, they all gel in a film with eminent rewatch value.

The premise is fairly simple. Griffith’s lowly secretary gets a job with Weaver’s megabitch boss. The former is unhappy at home and work, while the latter is unscrupulous and underhand, and happy to pass off one of Griffith’s good ideas as her own. Yet when Weaver’s character is incapacitated, in steps Griffith, who quickly attracts the professional and personal attention of Ford, as she attempts to navigate her way to the top--until Weaver reappears on the scene…

In lesser hands, all this could become routine Hollywood nonsense, yet here it really clicks. Griffith effectively brokered her career off the back of her performance here, yet all three leads are in fine form, with a strong supporting cast and a delicious script to fall back on. Elements have certainly dated, and the world in many ways has moved on, yet there’s still plenty of room in it for films as good as this one.--Jon Foster

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• One that doesn't date, with no Alien or Ark in sight, either!
  From the sweeping opening scene, with that classic 'Let the River Run' playing across it, to the closing camera pan-out, with Griffiths in her office, fading into a wall of similar offices, a great film.
  There is a similar vein to 'Educating Rita', with the underdog, stuck where everyone else thinks she's happy, breaking out and making something of it. But this is a US film, with a lot of hairspray (oh, the 80s!), immature corporate bosses, the superbitch, and none of them have time for the secretary... more info

• Still a fun movie.
  Forget about all the crazy hair dos and shoulder pads, this is still a great movie.
  Does anyone else find the end scene depressing though? It felt like they'd achieved their goal and were now insignificant specks in a city that swamped them.

• Let The River Run
  Nearly twenty years on, this film has survived the test of time and exudes maximum effort from Harrison Ford, Melanie Griffith and Sigourney Weaver.They were all at their peak at the time and it shoes. Melanie steals the show as the secretary who has to brave both the frying pan of a male dominated corporate world and the fire namely her idea stealing boss, Sigourney.
  Though she isn't as qualified as her ivy league peers, she is just as astute, if not smarter. By playing her own little game, she... more info

• Fantastic
  I love this film, I watch it whenever I need cheering up.
  5 stars from me
  Melanie Grifiths is fantastic in this film, however Sigourney steals the show with her hilarious self-centered comments. Love love love it!!

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