Nine to Five

Buy This Item Nine to Five by 20th Century Fox  Available from Amazon  $9.98  on 8-28-2008     With a nod to Preston Sturges's classic dark comedy <I>Unfaithfully Yours</I> (about a man who fantasizes about murdering his possibly philandering wife), this 1980 cotton-candy-feminist-vendetta film concerns a monstrous boss (Dabney Coleman) whose more capable underlings dream of ways of punishing him. That much of the film is particularly fun, but the rest of it descends into silliness when the women stumble onto a real-life opportunity to teach him a lesson. Fonda, the biggest star in the film at the time, takes a back seat to Parton's and Tomlin's showier roles. Written and directed by the late Colin Higgins (who made a lot of people happy in the '70s with his script for the beloved <I>Harold and Maude</I>). <I>--Tom Keogh</I> Reader Reviews This film does not pretend to be particularly profound. It is a delightful revenge fantasy which ends with no particular losers(!). Perhaps we could use more of this kind of gentle revenge.

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