9 to 5 (1980 film) = Finished
Added 2018-10-14 19:18:07 +0000 UTCYes, 9 to 5 is a comedy. Yes, Dolly Parton is awesome, as ever. Yes, the boss does get his comeuppance at the end by getting sent to Brazil and *checks notes* kidnapped by an Amazon tribe...but lord is the reality presented grim.
Think about a world where the boss still getting the credit for work performed by the women around him is a good outcome, because he's now seen as TOO successful, and so gets carted away to a far-flung location.
This was escapism in 1980.
Less than forty years later, some pieces of this movie are still painfully real.
I would say I can hardly imagine, but since we still have this movie to look at now--since we're still dealing with the fallout of the real sexism driving its comedy--I don't have to.
