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Working Girl

1988 · Movie · 109 min

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Scores

  • Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer83%as of 2026-01-11
  • Rotten Tomatoes average6.9/10as of 2021-10-05
  • Metacritic73/100as of 2026-01-11

What it is

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.

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Genres
Romance / Comedy / Drama
Original language
English

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