As good as these women are the film would go nowhere without Dabney Coleman who makes a specialty of playing men you love to hate whether in comedy or drama. But eventually these women make common cause and what they do to Coleman is an inspiration to working women everywhere. And the beautiful and curvaceous Parton is Coleman's secretary who Coleman is trying to jump her form and the folks in the office think he already has. Fonda is a new employee who had to go back to work because her husband left her. Tomlin is the efficient office manger who makes Coleman look good because he takes credit for her work. All three women are different, different in real life and playing different types of characters in the film and at the beginning not really liking each other because they don't know each other. Shirley and the other of MacMurray's victims should have seen this film and taken a lesson from Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, and Dolly Parton who start as strangers and end up as allies and who find a way to get even with Dabney Coleman for using and abusing his employees. I thought about poor Shirley MacLaine who tried to commit suicide and eventually found love with Jack Lemmon, but both faced an uncertain future albeit with each other. Part of the plot of that film was Fred MacMurray, a more polished version of Dabney Coleman from this film who also used his office and position of authority to behave like a real pig. While watching Nine To Five, I couldn't help but think about the Billy Wilder classic film, The Apartment.
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