Nine to Five (1980)

Director:

Colin Higgins

Writers:

Patricia Resnick (story)
Colin Higgins (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:

19 December 1980 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy

Tagline:

Getting even is a full-time job.

Plot:

Three female employees of a "sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot" find a way to turn the tables on him.

Plot Keywords:

Women | Beautiful Woman | Buxom | Revenge Against Boss | Coffee

Awards:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 1 win & 5 nominations

Cast

Jane Fonda	...	Judy Bernly
Lily Tomlin	...	Violet Newstead
Dolly Parton	...	Doralee Rhodes
Dabney Coleman	...	Franklin M. Hart Jr.
Sterling Hayden	...	Russell Tinsworthy
Elizabeth Wilson	...	Roz Keith
Henry Jones	...	Mr. Hinkle
Lawrence Pressman	...	Dick Bernly
Marian Mercer	...	Missy Hart
Ren Woods	...	Barbara
Norma Donaldson	...	Betty
Roxanna Bonilla-Giannini	...	Maria Delgado
Peggy Pope	...	Margaret Foster
Richard Stahl	...	Meade
Ray Vitte	...	Eddie Smith
Edward Marshall	...	Bob Enright
Alan Haufrect	...	Chuck Strell
Earl Boen	...	Mr. Perkins
Jeffrey Douglas Thomas	...	Dwayne Rhodes
Tom Tarpey	...	Norman Lane
Michael Delano	...	Motorcycle Cop
Barbara Chase	...	Buffy
David Price	...	Josh Newstead
Gavin Mooney	...	Detective at Hospital
Peter Hobbs	...	Doctor at St. Ambrose Hospital
Terrence E. McNally	...	Policeman (as Terrence McNally)
Esther Sutherland	...	Janitress at Hospital
Helene Heigh	...	Charlotte
Vicki Belmonte	...	Phoebe Hotz
Jerrold Ziman	...	Tom Wood
Jessica Badovinac	...	Lee Chang
Eric Mansker	...	Eric the Mailroom Clerk
Shirley Anthony	...	Maxine
Michael Hehr	...	Intern
Gary Bisig	...	Medic
Brad David	...	Medic (as Brad David Stockton)
Terry Jackson House	...	Medic
Raymond O'Keefe	...	Man at St. Ambrose Hospital
Vanna Salviati	...	Woman at St. Ambrose Hospital
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Elisabeth Fraser	...	(uncredited)
Les Jankey	...	Disabled office worker (uncredited)
Mark Rodney	...	Office worker (uncredited)

Directed by
Colin Higgins

Writing credits
Patricia Resnick		(story)
Colin Higgins		(screenplay) and
Patricia Resnick		(screenplay)

Produced by
Bruce Gilbert	....	producer

Original Music by
Charles Fox

Cinematography by
Reynaldo Villalobos		(director of photography)

Film Editing by
Pembroke J. Herring

Casting by
Terry Liebling		(as Terry H. Liebling)

Production Design by
Dean Edward Mitzner		(as Dean Mitzner)

Art Direction by
Jack G. Taylor Jr.		(as Jack Gammon Taylor Jr.)

Set Decoration by
Anne D. McCulley		(as Anne McCulley)

Costume Design by
Ann Roth

Makeup Department
Bernadine M. Anderson	....	makeup artist: Ms. Fonda (as Bernadine Anderson)
Susan Germaine	....	hair stylist: Ms. Parton
Ve Neill	....	makeup artist: Ms. Tomlin
Kaye Pownall	....	hair stylist: Ms. Fonda
Mark Reedall	....	makeup artist: Ms. Parton
Evelyn Trimmer	....	hair stylist: Ms. Tomlin

Production Management
Richard Hashimoto	....	unit production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Gary Daigler	....	assistant director
Chris Soldo	....	second assistant director
Janet G. Knutsen	....	dga trainee (uncredited)

Art Department
Margaret Cooper-Fischer	....	lead person (as Margaret Cooper)
George Eckert	....	set designer
George Jenson	....	illustrator (as George F. Jenson)
Gary Martin	....	construction coordinator
Gregory Pickrell	....	set designer
Richard M. Rubin	....	property master
Bob Wray	....	set designer
Claudia Gilligan Ivanjack	....	painter (uncredited)

Sound Department
Andrew Chulack	....	sound editor
Linda Dove	....	sound editor
Nicholas Eliopoulos	....	supervising sound editor
Godfrey Marks	....	dialogue editor
Bruce Richardson	....	sound editor (as Paul Bruce Richardson)
Theodore Soderberg	....	sound re-recording mixer
Richard Taylor	....	sound editor
Paul Wells	....	sound re-recording mixer
Jeff Wexler	....	production sound mixer
Douglas O. Williams	....	sound re-recording mixer (as Douglas Williams)

Special Effects by
Chuck Gaspar	....	special effects
Matt Sweeney	....	special effects
Jay King	....	special effects technician (uncredited)

Visual Effects by
Marv Ystrom	....	optical effects (uncredited)

Stunts
M. James Arnett	....	stunt coordinator (as Jim Arnett)

Camera and Electrical Department
Gary R. Dodd	....	key grip (as Gary Dodd)
Charles Minsky	....	camera operator (as Chuck Minsky)
Ralph Nelson	....	still photographer (as Ralph Nelson Jr.)
Doug Pentek	....	gaffer
Dave Anderberg	....	grip (uncredited)

Animation Department
Nicholas Eliopoulos	....	animation supervisor
Fred Lucky	....	animation characters

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Seth Banks	....	costumer: men
Shirlee Strahm	....	costume supervisor
Marla Denise Schlom	....	costumer (uncredited)

Editorial Department
Tim Board	....	assistant editor
Maria Stinnett-Busby	....	apprentice editor (as Maria Stinnett)
Nicholas Eliopoulos	....	editor: animation sequence (uncredited)
Craig Herring	....	apprentice editor (uncredited)

Music Department
John R. Harris	....	music editor (as John Harris)
Gregg Perry	....	song producer: "Nine to Five"

Transportation Department
Aram Betkijian	....	transportation coordinator

Other crew
Janet M. Daube	....	assistant: Colin Higgins
Wayne Fitzgerald	....	title designer
Gary Kalkin	....	unit publicist
Denise Kurtzman	....	assistant to producer
Kay Molyneaux	....	location manager
David Oliver	....	title designer
Eileen Peterson	....	assistant to producer
Marshall Schlom	....	script supervisor

Production Companies

• IPC Films (as An IPC Films Production)
• Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Distributors

• Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation (1980) (USA) (theatrical)
• Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) (1983) (USA) (TV) (broadcast premiere)
• 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment (USA) (DVD)

Special Effects

• R/Greenberg Associates (dream sequences/special visual effects designed and produced by)

Other Companies

• Pickwick/Maslansky/Koenigsberg Inc.  publicity
• Mishkin, Hellmich, Virgien & Friends  animation
• Optical House, The  animation opticals
• Pacific Title  opticals
• Working Women, the National Association of Office Workers  help and encouragement
• Intrada  score album released by (limited edition)
• Motion Pictures (MPI)  opticals (uncredited)

Also Known As:

9 to 5

Runtime:

110 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | French

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

4-Track Stereo

Certification:

UK:AA (original rating) | Iceland:L | Canada:PG (Ontario) | Australia:PG | Finland:K-12 | Sweden:15 | UK:15 | USA:PG | West Germany:12

Filming Locations:

10431 Bellagio Rd, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

IPC Films

Trivia:

In the middle of the film, Dolly Parton and her colleagues send a nosy secretary to the Aspen Language Center in Colorado to learn French. The particular TWA 747 shown in the film later was used in reality on the ill-fated flight of TWA 800, which exploded off of Long Island, NY.

Goofs:

Continuity: Violet's taillights repair themselves after she's been stopped by the police.

Quotes:

[Hart is about to be "promoted," and shanghaied from CC to Brazil, by Tinsworthy]
Franklin M. Hart Jr.: Mister Tinsworthy, I can't tell you how much I appreciate this, but...
Russell Tinsworthy: So you accept. Very good. Let's just go on up to Hinkle's floor and work out the details, shall we?
[He marches Hart into the elevator]
Franklin M. Hart Jr.: Mister Tinsworthy, the jungle...
Russell Tinsworthy: Jungle, hell! I'm offering you the chance of a lifetime! Two or three years down there, and you'll never wanna come back. Besides, I hear your wife just LOVES to travel.
Franklin M. Hart Jr.: My WIFE?... Oh, God... Mister Tinsworthy...!
[...]

Movie Connections:

Spoofed in 8 to 4 (1981)

Soundtrack:

Nine To Five

Hilarious Comedy Stands The Test Of Time

I never saw 9 TO 5 when it played at the theaters but saw it soon after on video. I was like 14 years old back then and I remember enjoying the film very much, even if I didn't get all the misogynistic humor and women's lib stuff. Fast forward to 2006 and I decided to buy 9 TO 5 on DVD and see the fun again. After all, I haven't seen this one on TV in a LONG time and my local BLOCKBUSTER is sorely lacking a "classics" catalog. I knew in my mind that some of the movies you hold so dearly when you're a kid simply don't "cut it" when you see them all grown up. I am very pleased to say that 9 TO 5 has stood the test of time quite well and its "it's a corporate world" underpinnings couldn't be more appropriate now a days. The movie was cleverly written and directed and the humor develops naturally without looking forced or too acted out. It's the story of recently divorced Judy Bernly (Jane Fonda). Her ex husband ran away with his secretary and now Judy, ironically, finds a job being one. The company is called Consolidated Companies, which by the way, we never really know what they do or what they sell. We only know that it is a big company and that each floor of the high building is a "division". Frank Hart (played wonderfully by Dabney Coleman) is the villainous boss and head of the division. He is, as his right hand aide might put it, an "egotistical bigot". Hart's overwhelming tyranny makes his aide, Violet, to snap and with her go Judy and Dorlee (Dolly Parton), his voluptuous personal secretary. The trio spend the afternoon together drinking and smoking pot and jokingly thinking how each of them would "kill" their boss if they had the chance. The movie visualizes each of the secretary's outlandish fantasies and this part of the movie is one of the most entertaining and hilarious. Next day it's back to the real world and back to the daily grind. From here on each of the secretaries' fantasies take real form in some way or another making the movie even more fun. You'll have to see the rest to know what I mean. Despite being a 25 year old movie, 9 TO 5 stands the test of time perfectly, with only some of the cars and some of the clothing fashion looking a bit dated. It is a very well made, fast paced comedy that never bores. My wife loved it and she had never seen it before (she was barely a year when this came out!). 9* out of 10!!!