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Working Girl (1988)
In director Mike Nichols' Best Picture-nominated modern
farcical romantic comedy about the workplace:
- the breathtaking, rotating opening shot of the Statue
of Liberty as the Oscar-winning Carly Simon song "Let the
River Run" played
- the character of ambitious and smart 30 year-old Manhattan
brokerage firm secretary Tess McGill (Oscar-nominated Melanie Griffith)
who was manipulated by her career-driven, icy female boss Katherine
Parker (Oscar-nominated Sigourney Weaver), who stole Tess' business
idea for a business merger
- Tess' flirtatious line of dialogue in a bar to handsome
investment broker Jack Trainer (Harrison Ford in his first light
comedy): "I have a head for business and a bod for sin. Is there
anything wrong with that?"
- the brilliant final pull-back shot of Tess in her
office, revealing her office to be just one of thousands in a single
building in the whole of New York City, as the subtly subversive
lyrics of "Let the River Run" undercut the triumphant moment
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