Melanie Griffith

Harrison Ford

Sigourney Weaver

Alec Baldwin

Joan Cusack

Philip Bosco

Nora Dunn

Oliver Platt

James Lally

Kevin Spacey

Robert Easton

Olympia Dukakis

Amy Aquino

Jeffrey Nordling

Elizabeth Whitcraft

Maggie Wagner

Lou DiMaggio

David Duchovny

Georgienne Millen

Caroline Aaron

Nancy Giles

Judy Milstein

Nicole Chevance

Kathleen Gray

Jane B. Harris

Sondra Hollander

Samantha Shane

Julia Silverman

Jim Babchak

Zach Grenier

Ralph Byers

Leslie Ayvazian

Steve Cody

Paige Matthews

Lee Dalton

Barbara Garrick

Madolin B. Archer

Etain O'Malley

Ricki Lake

Marceline Hugot

Tom Rooney

Peter Duchin

Maeve McGuire

Timothy Carhart

Lloyd Lindsay Young

F.X. Vitolo

Lily Froehlich

Michael Haley

Mario T. DeFelice Jr.

Anthony Mancini Jr.

Suzanne Shepherd

Trish Cook

Priscilla Cory

Marilyn Dobrin

Kevin Fennessy

Anita Finlay

Tom Sean Foley

George Gerard

Daniel Henning

Eric Kramer

Elisa London

Karen Starr

Alison Wachtler

Matthew Bennett

Douglas Wick

Doug Kraner

Robert Greenhut

Michael Ballhaus

Juliet Taylor

Kevin Wade

Sam O'Steen

Laurence Mark

J. Roy Helland

Mike Nichols

Ann Roth

Alan D'Angerio

Joseph A. Campayno

George DeTitta Jr.

Mike Bedard

Ingrid Johanson

Richard Baratta

John W. DeBlau

Gary Jones

Tim Galvin

Les Lazarowitz

David M. Dunlap

Louis Volpe

Tom O'Donnell Jr.

Patrizia von Brandenstein

Samara Schaffer

Mary Bailey

Stan Bochner

Andrew D. Schwartz

Todd Arnow

Florian Ballhaus

Linda Murphy

Lee Dichter

Patrick Mullins

Marshall Grupp

Carly Simon

Vic Armstrong

James Mazzola

Michael Jacobi

Jim Dunn

Michael Russo

Phil Neilson

Frank Ferrara Sr.

Comedy

Romance

Drama

Working Girl

20th Century Fox

United States of America

CinemaSerf

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 hold of one of her assistant's ideas and when she injures herself skiing, "Tess" discovers her boss's duplicity and decides to run with her idea herself - involving "Jack" (Harrison Ford) along the way. Turns out this idea has legs - and multi-million dollar ones at that - but as the two begin to mix business and pleasure - we discover that "Jack" has his secrets to keep too! The pace is generally quite good, the characters have plenty to like about them and the film builds nicely to an enjoyable and fitting conclusion. Griffith is on good form here, she has a spirit and charisma that can't help but raise a bit of a smile. Sarandon and Ford both support well, too with the latter content to take more of a charming but back seat role. Alec Baldwin features sparingly as her creep of a boyfriend, and I could have sworn I saw "Cyn" (Joan Cusack) in Culture Club or Dead or Alive! It's maybe a little bit long, but as feel-good films go, this has a decent script, plenty of chemistry and a vindication that worked for me.

"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 valid and important comments about big business and how particular individuals might be perceived in relation to the way they dress or look or act. The so called elite in any walk of life will always look down on and summarily dismiss certain people regardless of their abilities or the contributions they might make in much the same way as some men look down on and belittle women. Anyway, it is refreshing to watch a film which tells us this doesn't necessarily have to be the case and no one should have to silently tolerate it either professionally or domestically.