9 to 5 (film)
9 tois a 1980 American comedy film written by Patricia Resnick and Colin Higgins, directed by Higgins, and starring Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton, and Dabney Coleman. The film concerns three working women living out their fantasies of getting even with, and their successful overthrow of, the companys autocratic, sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot boss.
Judy Bernly Jane Fonda is forced to find work after her husband, Dick Lawrence Pressman, runs off with his secretary. Judy finds employment as a secretary at Consolidated Companies. The senior office supervisor, Violet Newstead Lily Tomlin, introduces Judy to the company and staff, including mail room clerk Eddie, alcoholic Margaret Foster, the sleazy boss Franklin Hart, Jr. Dabney Coleman, and Roz Keith Elizabeth Wilson, Harts executive assistant. Violet reveals to Judy that Hart is supposedly involved with his buxom secretary, Doralee Rhodes Dolly Parton. Hart exploits and mistreats his female subordinates, with backstabbing and sexist remarks. He takes credit for Violets ideas, cruelly yells at and threatens Judy on her first day after an equipment malfunction and sexually harasses Doralee, spreading rumors about an affair that never happened.When Violet discovers that a promotion she was hoping to receive was instead given to a man because of sexist hiring practices, she confronts Hart about it, as well as the rumors about Doralee who enters Harts office just in time to hear, and now realizes why she has become unpopular with the other secretaries. Violet storms off, stating that she needs a drink. Doralee takes Hart to task over his transgressions, informing him that she keeps a gun in her purse and will turn him from a rooster to a hen with one shot if his sexist behavior continues. She then also leaves, stating that she needs a drink. ........
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