Working Girl

Pros: Fine all-around performances from cast; great script; Nichols' directing

Cons: None...but the shots of 1988-era NYC will be jarring to some viewers after 9/11

The Bottom Line: Working Girl is a clever, romantic, and funny romantic comedy that, despite being formulaic, still instills a feel-good sensation to its audience. "Let The River Run!"

Review: I first saw Working Girl in late December of 1988; it was my first week home after my 88-day study-abroad stint in Sevilla (Seville), Spain, and my friend Betsy Matteis knew I needed to get out and have fun after being in a foreign country and ...

Pros: The snappy, witty dialogue. And Joan Cusack is hilarious.

Cons: It can be cheesy in parts. But you'll get over that.

The Bottom Line: You'll enjoy this nice, feel good film from the 80's.

Review: Preamble
This must be the weekend for me to catch up on my old, 80's favorites. First Less Than Zero and now this....

I love the movies of the eighties, especially those that fell into the romantic/comedy genre. If you...

Pros: It has all of the elements that make a great chick flick.

Cons: If you're looking for a thought provoking movie, this may not be it.

The Bottom Line: Not Academy Award winning material for the 2000's but still stands on it's own as a fun, spirited movie.

Review: For me, there are a few essential items that make a good chick flick. This movie has all of them:

1. An arch-rival; some one who gets under your skin so much that you want to see her ruined... and you do.

2. A makeover; drab girl...

Pros: Working Girl is a heart warming film.

Cons: None

The Bottom Line: Working Girl is a film I can recommend because of it's wonderful heart warming story line and great performance by Griffith!

Review: Melanie Griffith's one masterpiece performance is in this very funny and heart warming film, Working Girl. Tess (Melanie Griffith) is determined to make it out of the secretarial pool and into the business world. The road is hard and filled with...

Pros: Entertaining.

Cons: Short on movie guts.

The Bottom Line: See it for the happy ending.

Review: The casting in “Working Girl” has a curious little twist to it. Sigourney Weaver plays the ideal demon-like fairy tale bad lady, and Melanie Griffith plays the ideal woman with some good ideas who no one will take seriously. But Harrison Ford, arguably...

Pros: Sophisticated performances from Harrison Ford, Sigourney Weaver

Cons: Sometimes a little *too* '80s

Review: Hot on the heels of Wall Street was Working Girl, the romantic version of Oliver Stone's 1986 film preaching the gospel of greed. This is a world dominated by talk of mergers and acquisitions, arbitrage and million-dollar negotiations. It's a world...

Pros: Powerful performances, good underlying message, original and unique

Cons: Loses it's drive, not fun, underwritten characters, too long, occasionally boring, really bad theme song

The Bottom Line: Works so much on the business side that there's not adequate time for romance to blossom, so it needs to get it's mind out of the gutter.

Review: What hurts Working Girl? The entire relationship between Tess and Jack. The entire film is an evolution of sorts. Everything goes through an important change. Some things do so even after blossoming prematurely, for instance- the relationship between ...

Pros: an Executive Cinderella story

Cons: not believable in total story

Review: Take Carlie Simon's opening song, "Let the River Run," and a ride across the bay from the bad section of town (hair a la Saturday Night Fever), and the opening of the movie is intriguing. That Sigourney Weaver is a bad executive boss, who...

Pros: Amusing

Cons: Shallow, Fluff, Unrealistic

Review: This movie was amusing but entirely unrealistic. Sort of along the lines of Michael J. Fox in, "The Secret of My Success".

Melanie Griffith plays an administrative assistant (secretary) who creates a false identity and deceives her...

Pros: Nothing

Cons: Melanie Griffith and an awful plot

Review: I had forgotten how thoroughly unentertaining Working Girl is until I watched it again this weekend. The unfortunate thing about the film is that it has two personalities that I normally enjoy-Harrison Ford and Sigourney Weaver. However, it also...