80'S LADIES: 9 to 5 (1980)
LEAVE! DOLLY!! ALONE!!!
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CONTENT WARNING: Sexism, workplace harassment, sexual harassment, sexual assault, stealing a dead body, poisoning, workplace abuse, kidnapping.
It’s a new season, and a new series! AJ Ganaros (Straight Off the Top of My Headlines, Shattered Worlds RPG, Christmastide, OH) is here to kick it off, with the powerhouse female comedy that heralded so many female-led comedies in its wake. Everyone knows the theme song, everyone knows the basic plot of the movie. But did you know there was slapstick humor with a corpse in this film? Because we sure didn’t! For sure, this movie suffers a bit from the 80’s movie trope of doing way too much with a pretty simple, great premise. But at the end of the day, it really doesn’t matter, because Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, and Dolly Freaking Parton are so good, it hurts. Add to that Dabney Coleman’s huge range and performance, and it makes for one heck of a movie, warts and all. Make sure you pick up your coffee sweetener and not your rat poison, and join us as we kick off the 80’s Ladies series with 9 to 5!
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Intro music taken from the Second Movement of Ludwig von Beethoven's 9th Symphony. Licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Hong Kong (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 HK) license. To hear the full performance or get more information, visit the song page at the Internet Archive.
Excerpt taken from “9 to 5” from the film of the same name, written and performed by Dolly Parton. Copyright 1980 RCA Records.
