Working Girl

1988 114 min ★ 6.6 Comedy, Romance, Drama

When a secretary's idea is stolen by her boss, she takes a risky chance to reclaim it by impersonating him and running the project from his position.

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Cast

Melanie Griffith

Tess McGill

Harrison Ford

Jack Trainer

Sigourney Weaver

Katharine Parker

Alec Baldwin

Mick Dugan

Joan Cusack

Cyn

Philip Bosco

Oren Trask

Nora Dunn

Ginny

Oliver Platt

Lutz

James Lally

Turkel

Kevin Spacey

Bob Speck

Details

Director

Mike Nichols

Tagline

"For anyone who's ever won. For anyone who's ever lost. And for everyone who's still in there trying."

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Budget

$28,000,000

Revenue

$103,173,635

Production

20th Century Fox

Reviews

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CinemaSerf

June 9, 2022

★ 7/10

Right from the opening bars of Carly Simon's catchy theme tune and the young girls with huge hair on the ferry - I thought this was going to be entertaining. By and large, it is. "Tess" (Melanie Griffith) is fed up working for bosses who just want to sleep with her, so thinks perhaps things will change the she starts working for "Katherine" (Sigourney Weaver). Always open to ideas, this woman gets...

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kevin2019

May 9, 2024

★ 8/10

"Working Girl" is a wonderful film and it achieves an admirable level of entertainment value. The romance truly works and the comedy is genuinely funny and it should come as no surprise to anyone it did incredibly healthy business at the global box office. One of the most memorable elements of this film is the unflinching way the character of Tess McGill has been deliberately used to make some val...