Cunning piece of popular entertainment, pushing the proper buttons to bring out the grievances of almost everybody toward their bosses, and particularly those of secretaries. At its laziest, it settles for illustrating dog-eared pages out of the feminist primer. Certainly, it gives up any pretense of honest observation in its suggestion that if secretaries were to take control of the office, utopia would be soon to follow. Writer-director Colin Higgins may have felt that the inspiration of casting Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, and Dolly Parton would make up for any shortage of inspiration elsewhere, and he would not have been far wrong. Tomlin, as the office old-timer passed up for promotion for twelve years, has the most to work with, and makes the most of it. Fonda plays dumb, as she tends to like to do, as a divorcée who has never worked a day in her life, and whose consciousness has nowhere to go but up. And Parton is simply, easily, beautifully herself: a person with a fine sense of balance and proportion despite the appearance of top-heaviness. (1980) — Duncan Shepherd
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