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Nine to Five

Nine to Five is a 1980 comedy movie. It is about three womens' successful overthrow of their company's autocratic, "sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot" boss. It stars Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton, Jane Fonda and Dabney Coleman.

Nine to Five was a respectable hit, grossing $103,290,500 USD in the US alone.

Premise

Three woman are vicitimized by "the system" and their boss 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

Warning: Plot details follow.

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.

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