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*Working Girl* is a 1988 American comedy drama film directed by Mike Nichols. The cast includes Melanie Griffith, Harrison Ford, Sigourney Weaver, and Alec Baldwin. Kevin Wade served as the screenwriter, while Michael Ballhaus was the director of photography. The film was produced by Douglas Wick and Robert Greenhut, with 20th Century Studios as the production company. It was distributed by Netflix and Disney+.
The narrative is set in New York City and written in English. The film has a runtime of 109 minutes according to some records, while others list it as 113 or 114 minutes. It received an R rating. The film was nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress, Best Actress, and Best Director. It won one Oscar, with a total of nine wins and eighteen nominations.
Critical reception included a Metascore of 73 and a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 83%. The film has a budget of $28,000,000 and generated $103,173,635 in revenue. It was released on December 20, 1988, and December 21, 1988, with another release date of March 9, 1989.
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Film · TMDB
6.6When a secretary's idea is stolen by her boss, she seizes an opportunity to steal it back by pretending she has her boss' job.
Cast
- Melanie Griffith as Tess McGill
- Harrison Ford as Jack Trainer
- Sigourney Weaver as Katharine Parker
- Alec Baldwin as Mick Dugan
- Joan Cusack as Cyn
- Philip Bosco as Oren Trask
Themes
- new york city
- strong woman
- love triangle
- clerk
- empowerment
- feminism
- career woman
- business
- female protagonist
- staten island, new york city
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Ratings
IMDb
6.8/10
66,977 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
83%
Metacritic
73/100
- Year
- 1988
- Runtime
- 113 min
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- Won 1 Oscar. 9 wins & 18 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Mike Nichols
- Written by
- Kevin Wade
- Produced by
- Douglas Wick
- Starring
- Harrison Ford Sigourney Weaver Melanie Griffith
- Cinematography
- Michael Ballhaus
- Edited by
- Sam O'Steen
- Music by
- Carly Simon Rob Mounsey (score)
- Production company
- 20th Century Fox
- Distributed by
- 20th Century Fox
- Release date
- December 21, 1988 ( 1988-12-21 )
- Running time
- 113 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $28 million
- Box office
- $103 million
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Encyclopedic overview
Working Girl is a 1988 American romantic comedy drama film directed by Mike Nichols, written by Kevin Wade, and starring Harrison Ford, Sigourney Weaver, and Melanie Griffith. Its plot follows an ambitious secretary from Staten Island working in mergers and acquisitions. The secretary, who has been going to business night school, pitches a profitable idea, only to have her new boss attempt to take credit. When her boss is laid up with a broken leg, she secretly takes over her boss's role to prove her capabilities in the corporate world.
The film's opening sequence follows Manhattan-bound commuters on the Staten Island Ferry accompanied by Carly Simon's song "Let the River Run", for which she received the Academy Award for Best Original Song and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song, and the Grammy Award for Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or Television, making her the first artist to win this trio of awards for a song composed and written, as well as performed, entirely by a single artist. The film was met with critical acclaim, and was a major box office success, grossing a worldwide total of $103 million.
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