Nine to Five
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Template:Infobox Film Nine to Five, aka 9 to 5, is a 1980 comedy movie starring Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton, and Dabney Coleman and a television series of the same name starring Rachel Dennison, Rita Moreno, and Valerie Curtin.
It is about three working women living out the fantasy of getting even with, and their successful overthrow of, the company's autocratic, "sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot" boss.
Nine to Five was a respectable hit, grossing USD$103,290,500 in the U.S. alone.
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Premise
Three women are victimized by "the system" and their boss (Coleman) 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
One day the women smoke a marijuana joint and fantasize about getting back at their boss, Frank Hart (Coleman). Violet fantasizes about poisoning him, Doralee dreams of riding up in a sexy cowgirl outfit and treating him as a piece of meat just as he treats her, and Judy contemplates doing away with him a la 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 off 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.
Television series
The movie inspired two short-lived television sitcoms which aired from 1982 to 1983 and from 1986 to 1988. The shows, which aired on ABC (1982-83) and in first run syndication (1986-88), featured Parton's younger sister, Rachel Dennison in Parton's role; Rita Moreno and Valerie Curtin took over Tomlin and Fonda's roles, respectively. In the second version of the show, Sally Struthers replaced Moreno.
Trivia
- The movie's theme song, "9 to 5", became one of Parton's biggest hits of the decade. It was nominated for several awards, including the Academy Award for Best Song. It won the 1981 People's Choice Award for "Favorite Motion Picture Song", and two 1982 Grammy awards (for "Country Song of the Year" and "Female Country Vocal of the Year".)
- At the same time, newcomer Sheena Easton was enjoying her first major hit in Great Britain with a song also titled "9 to 5". Due to the success of Parton's song, Easton was forced to rename her recording "Morning Train (9 to 5)" for its North American release.
- This was Dolly Parton's first film.
A sequel?
In a TV interview broadcast on BBC1 in the UK in 2005, the movie's stars Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin and Dolly Parton all expressed interest in starring in a sequel. Fonda said if the right script was written she would definitely do it, suggesting a suitable name for a 21st century sequel would be 24/7. Parton suggested they had better hurry up before they reach pensionable age.
On Larry King Live, Parton revealed that she is working on a musical production of 9 to 5. A workshop is expected to start in summer 2006 with the play to premiere in fall 2007.