Working Girl - review

Tess McGill is a career focused woman who knows what she wants in life, but working as a secretary for Wall Street investors she isn’t given the chance to show what she can really do and when she’s set up by yet another sexist boss, she walks out in protest.

Given one last chance, Tess is given a job working for Katherine Parker, a finance executive who tells Tess that they are a team – any ideas she has she can share and Katherine will do her best to help Tess make her mark on the world.

Encouraged by this Tess works hard to try and promote herself along with working all hours under the sun for Katherine and feels she can trust her when she has an idea for a current project they are working on.

With her career on the up, Tess takes great pride in running the office when Katherine breaks her leg during a skiing holiday, but when she discovers that Katherine has passed off her idea as her own, she takes it upon herself to play boss and secure the deal herself.

With Katherine’s contacts at her disposal, Tess attends as many meetings and parties as she can to get her name known and learn enough about the business to pass herself off as an executive and while attending a party she meets Jack Trainer, a handsome executive who she ends up falling for and working closely with on her current deal.

As Tess throws herself into her work, she discovers her no-hoper of a boyfriend is cheating on her, but she has bigger problems when Katherine returns to New York and discovers what Tess has been up to.

Has Tess built up enough of a business mind to continue on her career path or does Katherine have the power to bring her back down to size?

Starring Melanie Griffith, Sigourney Weaver, Harrison Ford and Alec Baldwin, Working Girl is rom-com which mixes romance with business. I found it to be different than I had thought it would be, but that didn’t make it any less worth watching.

I would definitely recommend watching this 80’s movie, even if just to see how the fashions have changed!