Nine to Five

Colin Higgins’s feminist comedy stars Jane Fonda, Dolly Parton and Lily Tomlin as three office workers stuck with an odious sexist pig for a boss. After her husband runs off with another woman, Judy Bernly must find work for the first time. Joining Consolidated Companies as a secretary, she is taken under the wing of super-efficient, long-time office manager VIolet Newstead and fellow secretary Doralee Rhodes (Parton, in her screen debut). The trio have the misfortune of working for Franklin Hart Jr – a first class chauvinist, who will quite happily tip pencils on the floor just so he can ogle Rhodes’s cleavage while she picks them up. When Newstead is unfairly passed over for promotion for the umpteenth time, the women head for Doralee’s house to commiserate and smoke pot, which prompts revenge fantasies from each of them. But then fantasy blends with reality, and events spin out of control for the trio…, Colin Higgins’ feminist comedy stars Jane Fonda, Dolly Parton and Lily Tomlin as three office workers stuck with an odious sexist pig for a boss. After her husband runs off with another woman, Judy Bernly must find work for the first time. Joining Consolidated Companies as a secretary, she is taken under the wing of super-efficient, long-time office manager Violet Newstead and fellow secretary Doralee Rhodes. The trio have the misfortune of working for Franklin Hart Jr – a first-class chauvinist, who will quite happily tip pencils on the floor just so he can ogle Rhodes’ cleavage while she picks them up. When Newstead is unfairly passed over for promotion for the umpteenth time, the women head for Doralee’s house to commiserate and smoke pot, which prompts revenge fantasies from each of them. But then fantasy blends with reality, and events spin out of control…, Revenge comedy about three put-upon secretaries who decide to get even with their slave-driving boss., Office satire about three female secretaries who decide to get revenge on their tyrannical, sexist boss by abducting him and running the business themselves., In this comedy, three beleaguered secretaries get revenge upon their piggy boss. Each of wildly different ladies has their own bone to pick with the louse. One night, the ladies begin fantasizing about getting revenge on him. Soon this blossoms into a real plot that results in their kidnapping the boss., 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. But one of them panics the following day when she suspects she really has poisoned the tyrant., Frank Hart is a pig. He takes advantage in the grossest manner of the women who work with him. When his three assistants manage to trap him in his own house they assume control of his department and productivity leaps, but just how long can they keep Hart tied up?, Three female office workers become friends and get revenge against their boss, a sexist egotistical lying hypocritical bigot, and in so doing create a more efficient and pleasant work environment., Three female employees of a “sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot” find a way to turn the tables on him.