Monday, March 2, 2015

March 2 - Working Girl

Today’s movie is a romantic comedy with a scene that happens on March 2. Watch it tonight and enjoy.

WORKING GIRL    

Tess McGill is a working class secretary at a brokerage firm who has earned her B.A. in business and wants to move up. When she insults her boss after he sets her up with a sleazy colleague, Tess is made the secretary to Katherine Parker. She seems supportive of Tess. When Tess suggests that a client, Trask Enterprises purchase a radio station as a way of moving into broadcasting and avoiding a Japanese takeover due to FCC rules forbidding foreign ownership of media outlets, Katherine says she’ll look into it. However, after Katherine breaks her leg skiing and asks Tess to take care of her townhouse, Tess discovers Katherine planned to claim Tess’s idea as her own. The same day Tess finds her boyfriend fooling around. On March 2, 1988, [32:48 to 43:07] Tess attends a party given by Dewey Stone to meet Jack Trainor but meets a man. Unfortunately Tess’s friend had given her a Valium to calm her down and after the party, Tess awakens the next morning in the man’s bed. Tess goes to a meeting that morning to pitch her idea to Jack Trainor and discovers he is the man from the party. He likes her idea and they crash the wedding of Mr. Trask’s daughter. They set up a meeting with Mr. Trask to discuss their plan. Tess rejects her boyfriend’s marriage proposal. Tess wants to tell Jack her story, but stays silent when she learns he is in a relationship with Katherine. Katherine returns the day of the meeting with Trask to discuss the purchase of a radio chain. Katherine learns what Tess has been up to and barges in; telling everyone Tess is just her secretary. Tess slinks out. Days later, while clearing out her desk Tess runs into Katherine, Jack and Mr. Trask on their way to the meeting to finalize the purchase. With support from Jack, she is able to tell Mr. Trask how she came up with the idea of him buying into radio. When Katherine can’t explain how she came up with this idea, Trask arranges to get Katherine fired and hires Tess. Tess and Jack become a couple. At her new job with Trask, Tess learns she now has a secretary instead of being one.   

Date given in film at 32:25 on the Dewey Stone

Director - Mike Nichols                                              Screenplay - Kevin Wade

Awards – The film won the Best Original Song Oscar. It was also nominated for the Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress (Griffith), Best Supporting Actress (Cusak) and (Weaver)  at the 63rd Academy Awards.

Released – December 21, 1988                             Runtime – 1 hour 54 minutes

Starring – Harrison Ford as Jack Trainer, Melanie Griffith as Tess McGill, Sigourney Weaver as Katharine Parker, Alec Baldwin as Mick Dugan, Joan Cusack as Cynthia, Philip Bosco as Oren Trask, Nora Dunn as Ginny, Oliver Platt as David Lutz, Kevin Spacey as Bob Speck, Elizabeth Whitcraft as Doreen DiMucci, Jeffrey Nordling as Tim Rourke, Robert Easton as Armbrister, Olympia Dukakis as Personnel Director, Amy Aquino as Alice Baxter (Tess' Secretary), Timothy Carhart as Tim Draper, David Duchovny as Tess' Birthday Party Friend, Zach Grenier as Jim, Ricki Lake as Bridesmaid

Copyright by Ivan Walters in 2015.






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