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It's directed by Mike Nichols, the man behind The Graduate, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, and the Angels In America miniseries that made you cry
Carly Simon's Oscar-bagging theme song. Come, the new Jerusalem!
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Melanie's huge, HUGE hair.
Joan Cusack's even more huge hair.
And let's not forget Joan's Boy George/New Romantic-era make-up
The totes adorbs 80s technology
Alec Baldwin's chest rug. And how's about that hair?
It's basically a modern Cinderella story...
...with Sigourney Weaver as the Wicked Stepmother
Sigourney really is fantastic in it. She won a Golden Globe for the role...
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...but lost out on the Oscar to Geena Davis. Injustice! She was robbed!
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Harrison Ford is the tale's Prince Charming. Round of applause indeed.
It gave early, before-they-were-famous parts to Oliver Platt...
...and Kevin Spacey. Bob from Arbitrage!
Look! It's Ricki Lake!
It's Kathy Geiss!
Y'know, Kathy Geiss!
It's endlessly quotable. For instance...
...And...
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...and. Wait, maybe Joan is the one who was robbed of the Oscar
And of course, the legendary...
...if you don't know how that quote finishes, I feel sad for you.
It has a well-earned happy ending...
...Melanie/Tess finally makes it to her own office, with her own secretary. And she lived happily ever after...
...or does she? The final shot panning out from the outside suggests she has lost her individuality and has just become a faceless cog in the corporate machine. It's, like, all ambivalent!
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