Working girl - 1988

Oh I've always loved this movie, all of it. It's one of those movies that made me dream when I was little. The story of this girl that finds both success and love... of course she's a capable girl, very smart, very brilliant and with enough self-confidence to know she's good in her work, that's why she succeeds while I'm still here, more or less at the same point as I was when I first saw it.
Tess McGill (Melanie Griffith) starts off as a secretary, but her dream is to become a successful broker. She has a boyfriend, Mick (Alec Baldwin), and a best friend, Cynthia (Joan Cusack). Tess is honest and nice, Cynthia is funny and a good friend, Mick is dumped when busted having sex with Doreen. Tess loves her job but can't stand idiot pervs, so she has to change office for the third time. Her new boss is Katharine Parker (Sigourney Weaver), a successful woman that is all 'this is a two way road, you can come to me with any idea and be sure I'll listen and help' and all that kind of crap, which Tess believes though, and soon does exactly that. Katharine is like: nice idea, but won't work; good start, keep it up and blah blah, lecturing her on : things will never change if we lay still waiting instead of making it happen ourselves. When Katharine has an accident skiing, Tess takes care of her house, which includes of course trying everything in it. Let's just forget the stupid scene when she cleans half-naked, at least it's seen from afar. The important part is that she finds out Katharine wanted to pass on as hers Tess' idea; angry, Tess takes her place, meeting Jack Trainer (Harrison Ford), not knowing he was Katharine's boyfriend, and plans the whole deal. Meets rich Trask by going to his daughter's wedding party uninvited, then arranges everything working with Jack. Obviously the two fall in love, and everything is going great until Katharine comes back and finds it out and ends it by barging in in a meeting declaring 'she's my secretary and she stole my idea'. Tess says it's a lie but must admit the secretary-detail, and leaves. They all meet again when she's leaving her job and they're coming to close the deal. Tess and Jack talk and he believes her because he loves her and refuses to go without Tess. Trask doesn't know what to think, but then Tess can explain to him how she came to the idea of his company buying a radio station, while Katharine can't, so he sends her away and offers Tess a new job, working for him :-) That's one of the nicest scene, the ending, when she comes and sits in the secretary chair but a girl tells her 'I'm the secretary. That's your office' and she realizes she has a office like the one Katharine had, and first thing she calls Cynthia to tell her: 'guess where I am' and laugh, with "Let the river run' playing...
Other things I want to say: how easily, in American movies, people take pills like they were candy... first time she meets Jack she took a pill Cynthia gave her (and Cynthia took it from Katharine's bathroom), than drank tequila with this stranger and then was so drunk she fell asleep in the taxi and he had to bring her to his home :lol:
My fav scene though is when they meet in "her office" and before leaving he tries to get a date : 'beter not while we work together' but he insists and she tells him that there's the chance she might not like him and he goes 'who?me? naaaaah' and the lift doors close and she smiles/laughs the exact same way I smile/laugh at that same moment. When that happens, the scene is totally right :-)

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