Big Screen Classics: 9 to 5 (1980)
Employees Violet, Judy, and Dora Lee of sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot Franklin Hart Junior find a way to turn the tables on him. (PG, 109 min.)
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Office satire about three female secretaries who decide to get revenge on their tyrannical, sexist boss by abducting him and running the business themselves. The trio, one of whom has been passed over for promotion because she is a woman, spend a night together having drug-induced fantasies of killing the slave-driving chauvinist. One of them panics the following day when she suspects she really has poisoned the tyrant.
Starring: Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton
Director: Colin Higgins
Genre: Comedy
"9 to 5 is tremendous fun."
— Peter Bradshaw, Guardian
"One of cinema's most badass trios."
— Tara Brady, Irish Times
"[Parton] is, on the basis of this one film, a natural-born movie star, a performer who holds our attention so easily that it's hard to believe it's her first film."
— Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
"This is one of the most delightful films of the year. It's an entertaining movie with a social and political point to make about office politics. [2018 Reissue]"
— Bruce McCabe, Boston Globe
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