For anyone who's ever won. For anyone who's ever lost. And for everyone who's still in there trying.
When a secretary's idea is stolen by her boss, she takes a risky chance to reclaim it by impersonating him and running the project from his position.
Directed byMike Nichols
- Status
- Released
- Runtime
- 1h 54m
- Language
- EN
- Released
- December 20, 1988
- Budget
- $28,000,000
- Revenue
- $103,173,635
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Cast & crew
Melanie Griffith
Tess McGill
Harrison Ford
Jack Trainer
Sigourney Weaver
Katharine Parker
Alec Baldwin
Mick Dugan
Joan Cusack
Cyn
Philip Bosco
Oren Trask
Nora Dunn
Ginny
Oliver Platt
Lutz
James Lally
Turkel
Kevin Spacey
Bob Speck
- Directed by
- Mike Nichols
- Written by
- Kevin Wade
- Produced by
- Douglas Wick
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