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With a nod to Preston Sturges's classic dark comedy Unfaithfully Yours (about a man who fantasizes about murdering his possibly philandering wife), this 1980 cotton-candy-feminist-vendetta film concerns a monstrous boss (Dabney Coleman) whose more capable underlings dream of ways of punishing him. That much of the film is particularly fun, but the rest of it descends into silliness when the women stumble onto a real-life opportunity to teach him a lesson. Fonda, the biggest star in the film at the time, takes a back seat to Parton's and Tomlin's showier roles. Written and directed by the late Colin Higgins (who made a lot of people happy in the '70s with his script for the beloved Harold and Maude). --Tom Keogh
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In this witty, satirical farce, secretaries Dolly Parton, Jane Fonda and office manager Lily Tomlin live every female worker's dream after discovering they share the same resentment towards their egotistical, sexist boss (Dabney Coleman). When they get an unexpected chance to take revenge, they turn their male controlled workplace into a modle office - even as their scheme spins wildly out of control.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Dabney Colman hangs around,
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This review is from: Nine to Five (VHS Tape)
I hope this is a fantasy movie. Dabney Colman plays Franklin Hart Jr.... Mr. Hart can not understand what is happening to him. It seems that everything he does backfires. Violet (Lily Tomlin) gets upset because he promotes someone that she trained, around her. After making overtures to the married Doralee (Dolly Parton), she threatens to turn him from a rooster to a hen with one shot. At one point Violet fantasizes about and may have put “Rid-a-Rat” in his coffee, which leads to a great hospital scene. Violet says, “I'm no fool. I've killed the boss, you think they're not gonna fire me for a thing like that?!” He eventually spends time literally hanging around Judy’s (Jane Fonda) house while the Trio of women get the goods on his side business of pilfering from their company. Dabney Coleman outdoes himself in the hunting scene. Will he get his just rewards?
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5.0 out of 5 stars
one of the best movies ever!,
By waived wench "waived wench" (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Nine to Five (VHS Tape)
I've been a big fan of this movie since I first saw it in the mid-80s (although I get a lot more of the humour now. Lines like Doralee's furious "If you say another word about me or make one more indecent proposal, I'm gonna get that gun of mine and I'll turn you from a rooster to a hen with one shot!" went right over my head when I was ten. Needless to say it doesn't any longer!:)All of the cast is excellent and the theme song is one of Dolly Parton's best. On a more serious note, what I find particularly valuable is its presentation of life in low-paid work. Many of the situations can be found in the working place today and the film handles them with the right mix of seriousness and humour. In fact, I use anecdotes from the movie when teaching my students about the Industrial Revolution (especially about Roz, "the eyes, ears, nose and throat of the boss".) It's a bit after their time for most of them, but I'm hoping that I'm creating a new generation of Nine to Five fans.They don't make 'em like this any more.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
the original working girls!,
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This review is from: Nine to Five (Widescreen) (DVD)
I used to watch this flick ad nauseum on cable in the 1980s, a few years after it came out. Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda and Dolly Parton (in what was possibly her last good role) are great as three put-upon women working for a sexist boss (Dabney Coleman) who decide to just lock him up and take over the firm and prove that they can make it better. The best scene is when the three women, who were at first strangers, have become friends and are smoking marijuana as they dream up ways that they would make their boss see the light about his mistreatment of them. As the women get empowered at work, they start to take control in their personal lives as well. It's over-the-top but has a good message, and can be appreciated for the fact that it was made at the tail-end of the 1970s when there was a resurgence in the number of women entering the workforce and the feminist era.
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