For Labor Day we're doing a one off Movie of the Day entry, and I'm choosing a great comedy that celebrates a woman's rise in the workplace, perfect for the occasion, don't you think? Melanie Griffith is a secretary for a big Wall Street investment bank who pitches a great idea to her boss (Sigourney Weaver), who then steals it as her own, which ignites a war as Griffith tries to take back the credit that's hers. This movie is perfectly structured as a workplace fairy tale and kind of romantic comedy actually, with Harrison Ford playing way against type as the love interest role usually reserved for the woman in these movies. It's a movie that flips the gender roles perfectly while never making an overt or in your face statement about women's rights- this is just one woman's rise to the top to claim what's hers . It's a feel good movie for the holiday, although it's admittedly SO 80's (I wish there would be a movie like this today, but I doubt the picture for ideal success would be to rise up the ranks of Wall Street, right? Morally speaking, anyway?)
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