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I first saw this movie about seven years ago. It was released in September, 1995, almost exactly eight years ago. It was hilarious then, and still is.

The thrust of the story is the male chauvinist, "old boy" network
and how unfairly it treats the "girls" employed in the business. The heavy is Dabney Coleman (portraying Franklin Hart, Jr., who has risen to be department head over the woman who trained him, Violet(beautifully played by Lily Tomlin.)

But the best performance was by Dolly Parton, who plays Doralee, his private secretary with whom Hart allows everyone to believe that he is having an affair. When she finds out about it, she threaten to get her gun and "change him from a rooster to a hen with one shot." One of the more hilarious lines in the movie, as she delivers it.

I watched this film again last night, and it was just as funny as it was the first time.

Certainly one of the best movies ever made around a feminist theme. If only they'd left 'Hanoi Jane' out of it, I'd have liked it even better.

Joseph (Joe) Pierre, USN (Ret.)

author of Handguns and Freedom..their care and maintenance
and other books

you'll laugh so much, you'll double over and cry
Why this classic comedy is not on DVD is beyond me. AFI put this movie on their list of top 100 comedies for a good reason... you can pee in your pants from laughing during some of the scenes. The movie is dated... the fashion and lingo are late 70's / early 80's (the movie came out in 1980), but the comedy is timeless. Dolly Parton wrote the perfect song for the movie that tells the story of the working woman (and man)... which tells the story of the boss-man using their employees as just another step in the ladder to success... "I swear sometimes I think that man is out to get me...."

If you've never seen this movie, you're in for a treat. It starts a little slow to set the scene, but then you'll be rolling on the floor.

For Every Office Worker Who's Wanted to Bump Off the Boss...
Saw this movie over 15 times before it even hit video, let alone DVD - saw it in a theatre when I was younger, and it quickly became one of my favorite comedies.

The casting is brilliant. Lily Tomlin plays Violet, an office manager with a sexist-egotistical-lying-hypocritical-bigot of a boss, Mr. Hart (Dabney Coleman), who she is trying to put up with because she's in line for a promotion (even though she's had her share of seeing men SHE TRAINED promoted above and before her). Dolly Parton is Doralee, buxom secretary to the lecherous Mr. Hart, who put up with his advances and pinching and staring because she needs the job (little does she know, thanks to him and his mouth, she's also - behind her back - known as the office floozy). Jane Fonda is Judy, a newly divorced woman who's husband left her for his secretary - she's just started at Consolidated, and is having a hard time adjusting to office life.

In one bad -- really bad -- day, Mr. Hart manages to push all three of these women to the breaking point ... and that night, over good barbecue and an even better joint, the women fantasize about what it would be like to kill their boss; each woman has a unique and juicy way of doing him in that is both funny and suitable.

The plot changes drastically from here, when each woman systematically -- and accidentally -- puts a variation of her plan to action (or so she thinks), leading to all sort of misunderstandings, uncovering of big business schemes, kidnapping -- even a change in office decor!

The casting is ideal; this was Dolly Parton's first film, and she positively glows as Doralee. Jane Fonda, playing against type, is terrific as the mousy Judy, who finally finds her backbone after dealing with her husband's abandonment. And Lily Tomlin is awesome as Violet, a widow with four kids who's just trying to give her family a good life ... even if it means dumping her boss's body to do it (don't worry - this doesn't give the film away!).

It's rare to find someone who hasn't seen this great comedy -- anyone who's ever worked in an office can relate to it especially. It's funny, watching it now and seeing all the old typewriters and other office machinery that has now been replaced by computers in 2004 -- kind of dates the movie, in a way, but also adds to its charm. One of the best comedies of the 1980's, "Nine to Five" is a great way to spend a Sunday afternoon - and a satisfying tale of justice served for every one of us who's had a hellacious boss.