Working Girl
WORKING GIRL (15)
D: Mike Nichols
20th Century Fox (Douglas Wick)
US 1988
113 mins
Comedy
W: Kevin Wade
DP: Michael Ballhaus
Ed: Sam O'Steen & Richard Nord
Mus: Carly Simon
Melanie Griffith (Tess McGill), Harrison
Ford (Jack Trainer), Sigourney Weaver (Katherine Parker), Joan Cusack (Cyn), Alec Baldwin (Mick), Philip Bosco (Oren Trask), Kevin Spacey (Bob
Speck)
Melanie Griffith plays ambitious secretary Tess McGill in
this women-in-business rom-com. After a string of unsuccessful jobs, she finds herself as an assistant to career bitch Katherine Parker, but when the boss is hospitalised after a skiing
accident, Tess has her own stab at mergers and acquisitions with the help of charming businessman Jack Trainer.
This small girl in the big city fable is very much a
product of the yuppie 1980's and could easily be likened as the female equivalent of the testosterone-packed Wall Street (qv). Melanie Griffith gives a delightfully charming role in the lead,
but her thunder is stolen by her scene-stealing best friend Cyn (Joan Cusack). It's also impossible to ignore Sigourney Weaver's performance, who plays the office bitch to
perfection.
7/10
