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Comment/Synopsis

Melanie Griffiths is the secretary who impersonates her boss (Sigourney Weaver) who is out of the country and pulls off a big deal with Harrison Ford with whom she falls in love with. Her boss returns and discovers the deception. This is an entertaining and excellent send up of corporate America in the 1980's with good performances from Harrison Ford and Melanie Griffiths. Melanie Griffthis charcter sums up the aspirations of a secretary with abilities but constrained by the male corporate culture of the time. The film also benefits from a very good sound track, some crisp editing and sympathetic cinematography. Although Melanie Griffiths is 3rd billed it is really her film and she was realatively unkown at this point in her career but the director wanted her and her performance is a key ingredient to the film.

Actors

Harrison Ford

Melanie Griffiths

Sigourney Weaver

Joan Cusack

Alec Baldwin
Philip Bosco
Nora Dunn
Oliver Platt

Kevin Spacey

Olympia Dukakis
Julia Silverman

Ricki Lake

Oscars

Won - Best Music - Carly Simon
Nomination Best Picture
Nomination - Best Director - Mike Nichols
Nomination - Best Actress Melanie Griffiths
Nomination - Best Actress Joan Cusack
Nomination - Best Actress Sigourney Weaver

Quotes
I have a head for business and a body for sin
Never burn bridges. Today's junior prick, tomorrow's senior partner!
Sometimes I sing and dance around the house in my underwear. Doesn't make me Madonna. Never will.
The earth moved. The angels wept. The Polaroids are, are, uh... are in my other coat.
Oren Trask: Now get your - what was that you called it? Tess McGill, Jack Trainer: Bony ass. Oren Trask: Yes - your bony ass out of my sight!