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Nine to Five
A sharp, crowd-pleasing workplace comedy with a genuinely feminist bite. Its revenge-fantasy energy, star power, and quotable escalation make it both historically significant and still easy to enjoy.
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A sharp, crowd-pleasing workplace comedy with a genuinely feminist bite. Its revenge-fantasy energy, star power, and quotable escalation make it both historically significant and still easy to enjoy.
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Thu · 1h 50m
Director: Colin Higgins
Starring: Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton
Three female employees of a sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot find a way to turn the tables on him.
Colin Higgins
Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton
A sharp, crowd-pleasing workplace comedy with a genuinely feminist bite. Its revenge-fantasy energy, star power, and quotable escalation make it both historically significant and still easy to enjoy.
Nine to Five works because it understands how exhausting everyday sexism can be, then turns that frustration into a fast, funny power fantasy. The setup is simple, but the movie keeps finding new ways to sharpen its jokes, especially once the three leads start imagining what they’d do to their boss if they could get away with it.
Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, and Dolly Parton make the film feel bigger than its premise. Their rhythms are different enough to create constant comic friction, but they also sell the friendship and mutual recognition that gives the movie its emotional lift. Parton, in particular, brings an effortless charisma that helps the whole thing feel buoyant rather than preachy.
It’s very much of its era, with broad comic beats and some dated workplace attitudes, but the core appeal is durable: watching women outsmart a smug, abusive man never really gets old. As a mainstream studio comedy, it’s unusually clear-eyed about labor, power, and resentment, while still being light on its feet.
nora (4★) · 3717 likes
feminism is getting stoned with your gal pals and fantasizing about how you'd murder your misogynistic boss
jarod (4★) · 3071 likes
dream blunt rotation
Karsten (4.5★) · 2025 likes
This one goes out to my professor from last year who didn't go one class without letting us know that 'Nine to Five' was a perfect movie. You were right, Matt.
mia lee vicino (5★) · 1725 likes
so much of my time and energy is spent feeling hopelessly pissed off, especially in this political climate, and sometimes i need to CHILL! i need to laugh with my gal pals as Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, and Dolly Parton smoke a joint onscreen while indulging in their whimsical fantasies about enacting vengeance on their “sexist egotistical lying hypocritical bigot” of a boss! the ability to extract the humor out of the absurd shit that plagues society is a vital survival
Marian (5★) · 1646 likes
the direct anti capitalist action we need, the lesbian lily tomlin we deserve
Another mainstream comedy about women navigating power, ambition, and office politics with wit and momentum.
Shares the pleasure of women turning the tables on men who underestimated them, with a glossy crowd-pleaser feel.
A sharper, more polished workplace comedy about hierarchy, humiliation, and surviving a tyrannical boss.
If the appeal is the chemistry among women and the mix of humor with emotional solidarity, this is a strong fit.
Centers women’s friendship and frustration with men and institutions, with a similarly accessible mainstream appeal.
For viewers drawn to women pushing back against economic and social constraints, with a more melodramatic edge.
A classic fast-talking comedy about professional competence and gendered power dynamics in the workplace.
Another office comedy built around gendered assumptions, corporate absurdity, and a woman outmaneuvering the system.
A classic ensemble comedy about women’s social worlds, gossip, and power, with enduring crossover appeal.
workplace sexism, female solidarity, revenge fantasy, labor politics, office comedy, empowerment, gender roles, satire
workplace comedy, feminist satire, ensemble comedy, revenge fantasy, office politics, 1980s comedy, female friendship, labor unrest, broad humor, feel-good