Working Girl
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, Joan Cusack, Melanie Griffith, Sigourney Weaver Brand: Fox DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen Picture Format: 1.85:1 Running Time: 113 minutes DVD Release Date: 2001-04-17 Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Studio: 20th Century Fox |
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Movie Reviews of Working Girl
Movie Review: Awkward Drama from an Outstanding Director
Summary: 2 Stars
From the opening of the film, where we are treated to an outrageous glimpse of female hair in the 1980s, I knew I was in for a different kind of movie. WORKING GIRL chronicles Tess McGill's (played by Melanie Griffith) struggle against a working world dominated by men and education. While working as a secretary for a serpentine boss (Sigourney Weaver), Tess takes advantage of her boss's skiing accident to try her hand at running the show. Naturally, things spiral towards a climax and the film ends in an all-too-typical fashion.
To be honest, I really do not know what to say about this film. It was billed as a Mike Nichols comedy, so I thought I was going to get a love-story/romantic comedy of the working world. I was wrong. WORKING GIRL suffers from the fact that it does not seem to know what genre it is producing. To be sure, it has a few jokes, but the meat of the film is an awkward drama told at a slow pace. In fact, it is only a "comedy" insofar as its storyline focuses on an ordinary character whose development goes from a depressing low to an ecstatic high. I really expected more from Nichols. Any glance at his career will confirm that he is capable of far more. I also expected more from this cast. Everybody is in this film and most of them can act, so I must conclude that it was the script.
On top of everything else, I found it hard to identify with Tess's character. On the one hand, you wanted to see her succeed over her scheming boss. But Tess resorts to equally (if not more fraudulent) tactics in order to weasel her way to the top. She does not "sleep" her way up the chain of command as other films have depicted, but she might as well have because her methods are just as questionable. I find it quite hard to believe that things would work out for her as well as they do. You just do not hire someone who falsely presents herself as a professional, no matter how smart or dedicated she may be.
Why did WORKING GIRL get nominated for so many Oscars? It beats me. I can only guess that it garnered votes for tackling a tough topic (the male domination of the working world), having an all-star cast, and for having Mike Nichols as its director. For these reasons, I shall give it two stars. But my recommendation is that you skip this film and watch any other film that Mike Nichols has made.