Cinderella nails how to#
Cinderella nails movie#

Cinderella nails how to#

Tess gets a few pointers on how to level up her working-class style (get rid of the tacky jewelry, makeup, big hair, and baby voice) Parker encourages her to share her ideas, promising to pull Tess right up the ladder. It gets her fired, but when her new boss turns out to be the WASP-y Katharine Parker (arguably one of Weaver’s greatest comedic roles)-who espouses values of collaboration and sharing credit-Tess believes she’s finally been embraced by the feminist business sisterhood. She handles the sexist pranks of those piggish colleagues ( Oliver Platt nails the sleaze, setting her up with an even sleazier Kevin Spacey) like only a working-class gal could. She has solid instincts about finance but lacks the bona fides or support of her male colleagues to advance. In the original, Tess (Griffith) is a Staten Island secretary dreaming of a corner office. Then again, Working Girl, with its class-jumping hero and sympathy for what women have to do to succeed, holds up because its core messages about class, sexual harassment, and the tenuousness women face in the workplace still resonate, which make its modern appeal obvious. Remaking it could mean missing the point. It also features Carly Simon’s New York ode “Let the River Run,” and women ogling a shirtless Ford. It’s a legendary film among women of a certain age, who finally had more political and legal power to advance but still found themselves struggling to get ahead. What’s more, the 1988 workplace comedy starring Melanie Griffith, Joan Cusack, Sigourney Weaver, and Harrison Ford is a perfect time capsule of not just 1980s lion-mane hair, sneakers paired with businesswear, and outlandish eyeshadow, but also the decade’s careerism, feminist clashes, and class struggles.

Cinderella nails movie#

It’s just another Hollywood grab at reheating ’80s leftovers because they’re out of original ideas, right? Why remake a beloved movie with what’s likely to be an imitation at best? To borrow a famous line, “$6,000 dollars?! It’s not even leather!”

It would be fashionable to sneer at the breaking news reported by Deadline Tuesday that Selena Gomez and 20th Century are in final negotiations to reboot the iconic Mike Nichols film Working Girl.