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Nine to Five: Sexiest, Egotistical, Lying Hypocritical Bigot Edition (Dual-layered DVD)
- Starring: Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton
- Director: Colin Higgins
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Judy Bernly (Jane Fonda), a housewife whose husband has left her for his secretary, begins her own secretarial career at a huge corporation. Violet Newstead (Lily Tomlin), a feisty, veteran office manager, instructs her on the perils and procedures of office life -- and of working for Franklin Hart Jr. (Dabney Coleman), their chauvinistic, sleazy boss, and his right-hand woman, the crisp, nosy Roz (Elizabeth Wilson). Meanwhile, Hart's endless attempts to seduce his happily married secretary, Doralee Rhodes (Dolly Parton), lead the entire office to think she's a trollop. When Hart unfairly passes Violet over for a promotion, she drowns her sorrows at a local bar with Judy and Doralee, who regales the others with tales of Hart's epic advances. Later, at Doralee's house, the women smoke pot, eat barbecue, and concoct hilarious revenge fantasies -- a rodeo hog-tie, a Wild West shootout, and a gothic Snow White scenario -- about killing their boss. When a mix-up leads the women to think they have accidentally poisoned Hart's coffee, they hatch a scheme to protect themselves by stealing Hart's body from the morgue. When he turns up alive, never having drunk the coffee, they must kidnap him to prevent him from blackmailing them or calling the police. The women then use the occasion of their boss' absence to effect some changes around the office. Brian J. Dillard, All Movie Guide
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- Genre: Comedy
- Category: Farce, Feminist Film, Workplace Comedy
- Theme: Boss from Hell, Fighting the System, Out For Revenge, Women's Friendship
- Release Date: April 04, 2006
- Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)Rating Opens in New Window - Adult Language, Adult Situations, Drug Content, Questionable for Children
- Studio: 20th Century Fox
- Lead Actors: Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton, Dabney Coleman, Sterling Hayden
- Supporting Actors: Raymond O'Keefe, Tom Tarpey, Gary Bisig, Barbara Chase, Eric Mansker, Peter Hobbs, Shirley Anthony, Terrence E. McNally, Vicki Belmonte, Earl Boen, Helene Heigh, Michael de Lano, Richard Stahl, Ray Vitte, Alan Haufrect, Esther Sutherland, Michael Hehr, Elizabeth Wilson, Henry Jones, Lawrence Pressman
- Director: Colin Higgins
- Run Time: 1 hr 49 min
- Language: English, French, Spanish
- Subtitle Language: English, Spanish
- Format: DVD
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- DPCI: 058-14-1325
- ASIN: B002FN059Q
- Catalog #: 11298123
- Item can not be gift wrapped.
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- Estimated Ship Weight: 0.20 pound.
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Between the three of them, Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, and Dolly Parton manage to embody at least six archetypes of put-upon womanhood in this feminist manifesto disguised as a hilarious satire. Fonda represents both the happy homemaker and the tentative divorcee. Lily Tomlin plays the self-assured widow and also the career woman trying to break into the boys' club. Dolly Parton -- parlaying the comic timing she honed as a country-music variety-show regular into an auspicious film debut -- at first seems the opportunistic trollop, but really she's the sweet working wife. And with a huge supporting cast that eschews male characters almost as forcefully as The Women, Nine to Five fits in everyone from gal Fridays to working moms, jaded alcoholics to clueless trophy wives. Unlike such later feminist empowerment fantasies as The First Wives Club, though, this Colin Higgins-directed farce wears its satire on its sleeve. Animated flights of fancy, exaggerated revenge scenarios, and the fine comedic chemistry of the starring triad keep the film from seeming mean-spirited even when it stacks the deck in favor of the fairer ******. The phrase "sexist egotistical lying hypocritical bigot" fits Dabney Coleman's despicable F. Hart to a tee; he makes the creep seem instantly familiar, yet totally over the top. Fine supporting turns from Marian Mercer (as Hart's wife) and Elizabeth Wilson (as the meddlesome Roz) are just two of the many details that make this movie so funny. By 1980 the women's movement enjoyed the patronage of not just political activists, but millions of ordinary working women, and Nine to Five was the perfect populist vehicle for their collective cries of frustration. Laughter really is the best revenge, and that's what this smart fable provides in spades. Brian J. Dillard, All Movie Guide
