---
title: 'Working Girl (1988)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Mike Nichols'
released: '1988-12-21'
runtime_minutes: 109
genres:
  - 'Comedy'
  - 'Romance'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/working-girl-1988'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096463/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Working Girl (1988)

1988 · 109 min · Comedy, Romance · United States


## Synopsis

Working Girl is a 1988 American romantic comedy drama film directed by Mike Nichols, written by Kevin Wade, and starring Harrison Ford, Sigourney Weaver, and Melanie Griffith. Its plot follows an ambitious secretary from Staten Island working in mergers and acquisitions. The secretary, who has been going to business night school, pitches a profitable idea, only to have her new boss attempt to take credit. When her boss is laid up with a broken leg, she secretly takes over her boss's role to prove her capabilities in the corporate world.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Mike Nichols](https://cinepixo.com/people/mike-nichols)
- **Screenplay:** [Kevin Wade](https://cinepixo.com/people/kevin-wade)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Carly Simon](https://cinepixo.com/people/carly-simon)
- **Producer:** [Douglas Wick](https://cinepixo.com/people/douglas-wick)
- **Director of Photography:** [Michael Ballhaus](https://cinepixo.com/people/michael-ballhaus)
- **Editor:** [Sam O'Steen](https://cinepixo.com/people/sam-o-steen)

## Cast

- [Amy Aquino](https://cinepixo.com/people/amy-aquino)
- [Timothy Carhart](https://cinepixo.com/people/timothy-carhart)
- [Robert Easton](https://cinepixo.com/people/robert-easton)
- [Nora Dunn](https://cinepixo.com/people/nora-dunn)
- [Philip Bosco](https://cinepixo.com/people/philip-bosco)
- [Elizabeth Whitcraft](https://cinepixo.com/people/elizabeth-whitcraft)
- [Caroline Aaron](https://cinepixo.com/people/caroline-aaron)
- [Jeffrey Nordling](https://cinepixo.com/people/jeffrey-nordling)
- [Harrison Ford](https://cinepixo.com/people/harrison-ford)
- [Joan Cusack](https://cinepixo.com/people/joan-cusack)
- [Sigourney Weaver](https://cinepixo.com/people/sigourney-weaver)
- [Melanie Griffith](https://cinepixo.com/people/melanie-griffith)
- [Ricki Lake](https://cinepixo.com/people/ricki-lake)
- [Kevin Spacey](https://cinepixo.com/people/kevin-spacey)
- [Olympia Dukakis](https://cinepixo.com/people/olympia-dukakis)

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