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Screening & Live Event: Working Girl

Introduced by Sam Kashner and Ash Carter, authors of Life Isn’t Everything: Mike Nichols, as remembered by 150 of his closest friends

Dir. Mike Nichols. 1988, 113 mins. 35mm.With Melanie Griffith, Harrison Ford, Sigourney Weaver, Alec Baldwin, Joan Cusack, Philip Bosco, and Olympia Dukakis. Tess McGill (Melanie Griffith in her breakout performance) is a wise-cracking Wall Street secretary from Staten Island determined to climb her way to the top in this Reagan-era update of a classic Horatio Alger scenario. As McGill’s love interest and adversary, respectively, Ford and Weaver bring shades of nuance to familiar types, while Mike Nichols directs with the economy of a comedic master, working enough sleight-of-hand variations into the plot to keep the viewer guessing, and perfecting a style of uncompromised adult storytelling that scarcely exists in today’s Hollywood.
After the screening, join the authors for a signing of Life Isn’t Everything: Mike Nichols, as remembered by 150 of his closest friends

Tickets: $15 ($11 seniors and students / $9 youth (ages 3–17) / free or discounted for Museum members. Order tickets online. (Members may contact [email protected] with questions regarding online reservations.)

View the Museum’s ticketing policy here. For more information on membership and to join online, visit our membership page.











When: Sat., Nov. 16, 2019 at 1:00 pm
Where: Museum of the Moving Image
36-01 35th Ave.
718-777-6888
Price: $9-$11
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Introduced by Sam Kashner and Ash Carter, authors of Life Isn’t Everything: Mike Nichols, as remembered by 150 of his closest friends

Dir. Mike Nichols. 1988, 113 mins. 35mm.With Melanie Griffith, Harrison Ford, Sigourney Weaver, Alec Baldwin, Joan Cusack, Philip Bosco, and Olympia Dukakis. Tess McGill (Melanie Griffith in her breakout performance) is a wise-cracking Wall Street secretary from Staten Island determined to climb her way to the top in this Reagan-era update of a classic Horatio Alger scenario. As McGill’s love interest and adversary, respectively, Ford and Weaver bring shades of nuance to familiar types, while Mike Nichols directs with the economy of a comedic master, working enough sleight-of-hand variations into the plot to keep the viewer guessing, and perfecting a style of uncompromised adult storytelling that scarcely exists in today’s Hollywood.
After the screening, join the authors for a signing of Life Isn’t Everything: Mike Nichols, as remembered by 150 of his closest friends

Tickets: $15 ($11 seniors and students / $9 youth (ages 3–17) / free or discounted for Museum members. Order tickets online. (Members may contact [email protected] with questions regarding online reservations.)

View the Museum’s ticketing policy here. For more information on membership and to join online, visit our membership page.

Buy tickets/get more info now