Nine to Five
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Nine to Five, aka 9 to 5, is a 1980 comedy movie starring Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton, and Dabney Coleman.
It is about three working women living out the fantasy of getting even with, and their successful overthrow of, the company's autocratic, "sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot" boss.
Nine to Five was a respectable hit, grossing USD$103,290,500 in the U.S. alone.
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Premise
Three women are victimized by "the system" and their boss (Coleman) in a large, heartless American corporation. Violet (Tomlin) is passed up for promotions she rightly deserves, Doralee (Parton) is lusted after by her lascivious boss and Judy (Fonda) is shocked by the events going on around her, but, being a new hire, is powerless to do anything.
Plot
One day the women fantasize about getting back at their boss, Frank Hart (Coleman). Violet fantasizes about poisoning him, Doralee dreams of treating him as a piece of meat just as he treats her, and Judy contemplates doing away with him a la a big game hunter.
Later, purely by chance, each woman gets to live out a motif of her fantasy when Violet thinks she has accidentally poisoned Hart. This sets of a series of events which culminates in the women imprisoning Hart in his own home while the women pursue getting evidence of his embezzling from the company.
While Hart is confined, the women succeed in making changes at the office that arouse the attention of the company chairman of the board.
The movie inspired a short-lived television series that aired on the ABC network.
Trivia
- The movie's theme song, "9 to 5," became one of Parton's biggest hits of the decade. It was nominated for several awards, including the Academy Award for Best Song. It won the 1981 People's Choice Award for "Favorite Motion Picture Song."
- At the same time, newcomer Sheena Easton was enjoying her first major hit in Great Britain with a song also titled "9 to 5." Due to the success of Parton's song, Easton was forced to rename her recording "Morning Train (9 to 5)" for its North American release.