How ‘Working Girl’ Changed My Career Trajectory

Melanie Griffith as Tess McGill in the 1988 film "Working Girl." Shortly after, I fell asleep, fully clothed, watching one of my favorite films, “Working Girl,” the 1988 Mike Nichols classic starring Melanie Griffith, Sigourney Weaver and Harrison Ford, which turned 35 in December. Twentieth Century Fox/Alamy When she gets a new job working in Mergers and Acquisitions for the beautiful and successful Katherine Parker, she finally feels heard ― Until she learns her new mentor is more manipulative than the men, and, unlike them, she’s pretending to be something she’s not. Just record notes of every single thing we say.” On another occasion, while checking my boss’s emails as he’d specifically instructed, I stumbled upon one from a female co-worker who said, “Blake is pathetic, she thinks she has value here,” to which he replied “LOL.” Melanie Griffith and Harrison Ford on the set of "Working Girl." “I’m not gonna spend the rest of my life working my ass off and getting nowhere just because I followed rules that I had nothing to do with setting up,” Tess says.