Working Girl (1988)

Tess (Melanie Griffith) is doing everything right to climb the corporate ladder, but she's got a lot working against her. She's from the wrong side of the tracks, she got her degree in night school, and she's a woman. But she's savvy, hungry and keeps herself abreast of everything that might give her a leg up. When Tess's new boss tries to steal her big idea, Tess decides to take matters into her own hands even though she has to bend the rules to do so.

It's a time capsule of what it was like to be a woman in the 1980s corporate world -- kind of in the same way that Mad Men is a time capsule of 1960s business -- and it's sobering. But this is also, first and foremost, a romantic comedy and it really delivers on that. Harrison Ford is charming and so is Griffith (I'm not sure why I was so annoyed with her when I first saw this).

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