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Released
1988 · FILM

Working Girl

An ambitious Staten Island secretary steals her boss’s lucrative idea and, when he’s sidelined by a broken leg, pretends to be him to close the deal—risking exposure, her career, and a budding romance.

“For anyone who's ever won. For anyone who's ever lost. And for everyone who's still in there trying.”

Directed by
Mike Nichols, Mike Nichols Nm0001566
Written by
Kevin Wade
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
113 min
ComedyDramaRomance
Streaming on
  • Paramount+

Synopsis

When a secretary's idea is stolen by her boss, she takes the opportunity to steal it back by pretending she has her boss's job.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 196+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Sam O SteenShot by Michael BallhausDesigned by Patrizia Von BrandensteinSound by Stan BochnerCostumes by Ann RothStunts by Jim Dunn

Box Office

1988 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 3.7× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$103.2M

Budget$28.0M
Worldwide gross$103.2M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $63.8M — 62% of worldwide · International: $39.4M (38%)

Opening weekend: $9.3M — 15% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $9.3M — 15% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,051 theaters

Also known as

  • Die Waffen der Frauende
  • Working girlfr
  • Una donna in carrierait
  • (Bulgarian)Работещо момиче
Release dates around the world4 countries · show
  • United StatesDec 20, 1988
  • ArgentinaFeb 16, 1989
  • AustraliaMar 2, 1989
  • FinlandMar 3, 1989

Production & Distribution

Production
20th Century Fox
Distributors
20th Century Fox20th Century Fox India
Other companiesArista Records, David Sharp's Totally Looped Group, Dolby Stereo, International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE), J.G. Films

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