Working Girl
Mike Nichols · 1988
Working Girl (1988), directed by Mike Nichols, follows Tess McGill, a Staten Island secretary with a night-school business degree, as she navigates corporate Manhattan. After being fired from one brokerage, she lands a job with Katharine Parker at Petty Marsh — only to discover her boss intends to steal her idea for a radio-network acquisition. When Katharine breaks her leg, Tess steps in, borrows her wardrobe, and executes the deal herself. Melanie Griffith, Harrison Ford, and Sigourney Weaver anchor a tightly written, visually controlled film that treats ambition as procedural, not mythical — and success as earned, narrow, and reversible.
