9 to 5 (1980): Working Women, Rhinestones and Remembering Dolly Parton
This week on Cozy Quilt Cinema, we are taking a quiet moment to remember Dolly Parton with 9 to 5 (1980), the feminist workplace comedy that gave us one of her most iconic songs and one of her most memorable performances.
Dolly stars alongside Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin as three women pushed to the breaking point by their sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical boss, played to oily perfection by Dabney Coleman. What follows is part workplace revenge fantasy, part sharp feminist satire, and somehow still painfully relevant more than four decades later.
We talk about the sexism and wage…
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