The movie was cleverly written and directed and the humor develops naturally without looking forced or too acted out. I am very pleased to say that 9 TO 5 has stood the test of time quite well and its "it's a corporate world" underpinnings couldn't be more appropriate now a days. I knew in my mind that some of the movies you hold so dearly when you're a kid simply don't "cut it" when you see them all grown up. After all, I haven't seen this one on TV in a LONG time and my local BLOCKBUSTER is sorely lacking a "classics" catalog. Fast forward to 2006 and I decided to buy 9 TO 5 on DVD and see the fun again. I was like 14 years old back then and I remember enjoying the film very much, even if I didn't get all the misogynistic humor and women's lib stuff. I never saw 9 TO 5 when it played at the theaters but saw it soon after on video. A funny revenge comedy about Every Office, U.S.A. Sterling Hayden has a great cameo at the end as the "Chairman of the Board". Jane Fonda, who I never cared much for, was good as the naive Judy. Three very clever characters, great comedic acting from Parton as Doralee and Tomlin as Violet.
Hart, something along the lines of, "If I want to do M&M's, that's fine with me!" The office they work in is reminiscent of the one in "The Apartment". There are some great one-liners like the one where Fonda tells her ex-husband, who thinks she's having a kinky S&M affair with Mr. Hart's coffee with rat poison and tries to steal his supposed dead corpse out of the hospital! This is the kind of movie where you check your brain at the door and take it for what it is.
Sure, it does delve into zany corniness, such as the scene where they all get high on pot and share their fantasies about how each of them would like to knock off the boss (the funniest is Violet's "Snow White" coffee one, which uses cartoon animation and live action) or the scene where Violet thinks she accidentally poisoned Mr.
Hart, played to the hilt by Dabney Coleman. Soon these three become best friends and team up after they've gotten fed up with their chauvinistic and smarmy boss Mr. Dolly Parton is Doralee, a secretary whom everyone at the office thinks is using her - ahem - "assets" to get ahead by sleeping with the boss. Lily Tomlin is Violet, the beleagured supervisor at the office who shows Judy the ropes on her disasterous first day. Jane Fonda plays Judy, a recently divorced housewife who lands a secretarial job at a corporate office. "Nine To Five" is one of those classic 80s comedies which was what made the decade so fun as far as movies go.
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