Nine to Five (1980)
Directed by Colin Higgins
Three female employees of a sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot find a way to turn the tables on him.
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The premise on paper seems simple enough but like Collin Higgin’s Nine to Five , a better film that you’re sometimes reminded of, care has been taken to circumvent obvious advances in the story.
An exercise in the fashionable Hollywood in-your-face lewdness associated with the envelope-pushing Judd Apatow, this business world comedy is a switch on Nine to Five , the 1980 feminist movie in which Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin and Dolly Parton kidnap their exploitative chauvinist boss.
Think of 2011's "Horrible Bosses" as "Nine to Five" meets "The Hangover."
While we’re on the subject of female-driven comedies, though, “Bad Moms” also has more than a hint of “ Nine to Five ” about it—a huge compliment from me, given that it was a childhood favorite of mine.
It was the first comedy with an all-female lead cast to become a crossover demographic success since perhaps Nine to Five, which came out more than thirty years ago.