Picture this: it's to be a sort of New York fairy tale about an ambitious, industrious, competent, loyal, and trusting secretary outrunning all the rats in the rat race, and the first shot is an aerial one of the face of Lady Liberty. Might you just as well give up right then? Is a movie -- even a Mike Nichols movie -- that starts out at that level of mediocrity doomed to maintain it? Well, not quite. Sigourney Weaver, in a strictly supporting role as the Queen Bee of a Wall Street brokerage, gets a chance to kid her image as a feminist paragon, and she makes the most of it. And Michael Ballhaus's photography is spankingly clean and bright. The story -- dedicated to the proposition that the Little Person is every bit as capable as the Big Shot, besides being more winsomely girlish and feminine, having creamier shoulders, a fuller bosom, a plusher rump, etc., etc. -- amounts to no more than a nice neck-rub and foot-soak for the overworked and underemployed. With Melanie Griffith, Harrison Ford, Alec Baldwin, and Joan Cusack. (1988) — Duncan Shepherd
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