A top-drawer romantic comedy with all the right ingredients in place.
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05/27/08
Working Girl (1988)
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Reviews Counted: 36
Fresh: 30
Rotten:6
Average Rating: 6.7/10
Runtime: 1 hr 55 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: A young secretary (Melanie Griffith in an Oscar-nominated performance) with dreams of moving up the corporate ladder thinks that her brains will help her achieve her goals. And when she finds a job with a seemingly helpful and sympathetic... [More]
Starring: Melanie Griffith, Sigourney Weaver, Harrison Ford, Alec Baldwin
Director: Mike Nichols
Reviews for Working Girl
Top Critic The interaction between the female leads is so funny that you don't care if the leading man never turns up.
01/26/06
Top Critic Griffith's talent, energy, and sexiness give it some drive and punch.
05/27/08
Funny, touching and tremendously buoyant, this is a feel-good movie with smarts.
05/27/08
Top Critic Working Girl is enjoyable largely due to the fun of watching scrappy, sexy, unpredictable Melanie Griffith rise from Staten Island secretary to Wall Street whiz.
05/27/08
Top Critic In Mike Nichols' fairy tale about the workforce, Melanie Griffith gives a charming performance as an absued scretary who decides to take charge of her life and in the process also gets the lover of her bitchy boss (well played by Sigourney Weaver).
02/29/08
The film lobbies passionately for Tess’s agency, intelligence, and shrewd business-sense and yet still manages to find time to ogle her "bod for sin."
08/01/06
Wait... Sigourney Weaver and Harrison Ford can be funny? And Melanie Griffith can act? Crazy!
09/10/05
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