Actor

Sigourney Weaver

3: briefs
13:00: average
39 min: in total

On film.briefs3

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.

13:00

Alien

Ridley Scott · 1979

A commercial towing crew, woken early by what they believe is a distress signal, boards a derelict ship and returns with something that starts killing them one by one. Ridley Scott's first science-fiction film builds the genre's most enduring monster movie almost entirely out of dread, sound design and H.R. Giger's biomechanical creature, on a budget that a science-fiction boom had only just made possible.

13:00

Aliens

James Cameron · 1986

James Cameron's 1986 sequel to Alien sends Sigourney Weaver's Ripley back to the colonised moon where the first creature was found, this time with a unit of Colonial Marines whose confidence collapses fast once the aliens appear. Greenlit only after Brandywine settled a profit-sharing lawsuit with Fox, and made after two separate standoffs over Weaver's return, the film swept effects and sound awards, earned Weaver a rare Best Actress nomination for a science-fiction role, and returned more than seven times its 18.5 million dollar budget.