Working Girl: Critic Reviews

Working Girl, always fun even when at its most frivolous, has the benefit of the cinematographer Michael Ballhaus's sharp visual sense of board room chic, and of supporting characters who help carry its class distinctions beyond simple caricature.

This scrumptious romantic comedy with its blithe cast is as easy to watch as swirling ball gowns and dancing feet. But oh me, oh my, how much more demanding it is to be a fairy tale heroine these days.

Nichols' timing seems off.

Working Girl is Nichols returning to the top of his form, and Griffith finding hers.

Griffith's talent, energy, and sexiness give it some drive and punch.

Working Girl is enjoyable largely due to the fun of watching scrappy, sexy, unpredictable Melanie Griffith rise from Staten Island secretary to Wall Street whiz.

How will the working class be educated to survive and thrive in the computer age? This intoxicating movie has an answer: let her strut her outer-borough wisdom from Wall Street to the Pacific Rim. Watch her fatten portfolios as she melts hearts.

Sexed-up '80s corporate tale with stellar cast.

It deliciously plays out as a modern day corporate Cinderella story for females.

A top-drawer romantic comedy with all the right ingredients in place.

Funny, touching and tremendously buoyant, this is a feel-good movie with smarts.

In Mike Nichols' fairy tale about the workforce, Melanie Griffith gives a charming performance as an absued scretary who decides to take charge of her life and in the process also gets the lover of her bitchy boss (well played by Sigourney Weaver).

80s corporate hokum rescued by another very funny turn from Sigourney Weaver.

The film lobbies passionately for Tess's agency, intelligence, and shrewd business-sense and yet still manages to find time to ogle her "bod for sin."

The interaction between the female leads is so funny that you don't care if the leading man never turns up.

Wait... Sigourney Weaver and Harrison Ford can be funny? And Melanie Griffith can act? Crazy!

blah comedy, but with nice performers