Jenny

This 1988 movie, directed by Mike Nichols, starring Melanie Griffith, Harrison Ford, and Sigourney Weaver is a classic feel good, cheer-for-the-underdog movie.  This is the quintessential “secretaries’ movie” for a girls get together, or just to loaf around on the couch and watch when you are home alone on a Friday night.

Melanie Griffith plays Tess Harper, an industrious secretary from Staten Island brimming with entrepreneurial ideas and of finally moving out of the secretarial pool and into the executive suite.  She has the brilliant idea of putting together a lucrative deal for her company and brings her idea to her female boss (Katherine Parker), played by Sigourney Weaver.  However, two-faced Parker, the ladder climber, is hell bent on cutting Harper out of the deal.  Harper realizes in time Parker’s true intentions, and instead turns to Jack Trainer. Trainer an outside deal broker, who just happens to be Parker’s boyfriend, helps Harper to engineer the deal before Parker can claim it as her own.  In a romantic twist, Harper and Trainer fall for each other as they work together on the deal.

Working Girl is a must see, again and again and again.  So pop some popcorn, blend up some margaritas, and prepare to cheer Tess on as she outwits Katherine Parker in her quest to make it to the executive suite.

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