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Nine to Five
original movie poster
Directed by	Colin Higgins
Produced by	Bruce Gilbert
Written by	Patricia Resnick Colin Higgins
Starring	Jane Fonda Lily Tomlin Dolly Parton Dabney Coleman Elizabeth Wilson Marian Mercer Colin Higgins Peggy Pope
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date(s)	December 19, 1980 (USA)
Running time	110 min.
Language	English French
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Nine to Five, also known as 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 an across-the-board hit, grossing USD$103,290,500 in the U.S. alone.

This film is number 47 on Bravo's "100 Funniest Movies".

Contents 1 Premise 2 Plot 3 Television series 4 2009 Broadway musical 5 Trivia 6 Memorable dialog 7 Possible sequel 8 References 9 External links

Three women turn the tables on their "sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot" boss when their dissatisfaction causes them to reach the boiling point. A bizarre series of misunderstandings causes them to seize control of their department forcibly, kidnapping their boss and imprisoning him while they change their workplace to suit their vision of a more equitable, friendly environment.

The film is centered on the friendship among three women who work in the business offices of a large corporation known as Consolidated. Judy Bernly is a naïve new employee, a recent divorcee whose husband left her for his secretary. On her first day, Judy meets Violet Newstead, the supervisor of her department, and a longtime employee of Consolidated. Violet trains Judy and introduces her to the department executive, Franklin Hart, Jr., who immediately reveals himself to be arrogant and sexist. Judy soon learns that Violet has been passed over consistently by those who could promote her, and in fact she has seniority over Hart. The third woman in the trio is the buxom Doralee Rhodes, Hart’s personal secretary. Despite the fact that Doralee is a happily married woman, and Hart is also married, Hart continually makes inappropriate advances toward her, pushing her patience and tolerance to the limit. Hart has also been lying to his colleagues that he’s been sleeping with her anyway, causing office gossip to go wild. The women in the office treat her rudely as a result, and initially Judy shuns Doralee’s attempts to be friendly.

Some time passes, and Violet is once again passed over for an important promotion, even though her ideas are good enough that Hart passes one off as his own and takes all the praise for it. Hart bluntly tells Violet that the company would rather have a man in the position, and Violet becomes enraged, storming off on her own, but not before she reveals to Doralee that her “affair” with Hart is common knowledge. Doralee snaps and also rages at Hart, threatening to use her gun on him the next time he makes an indecent proposal, stating (in what is perhaps the film's most well-known line) that she will turn him "from a rooster to a hen with one shot". Judy witnesses a fellow secretary lose her job over a minor infraction and she, too, becomes enraged. The three women converge at a local bar to drown their sorrows, then return to Doralee’s house and smoke marijuana together, prompting each of them to have a detailed fantasy about how they would kill Hart if they had the chance. Judy imagines a scenario where she hunts down Hart in the office with a shotgun, while Doralee turns the tables on Hart and sexually harasses him before roasting him alive on a spit. Violet envisions a fairy tale where she is a Snow White type character who poisons Hart’s coffee and sends him falling to his death outside his office window.

Things take a sudden bizarre turn the next day when each of the women’s fantasies comes true in some way. Violet accidentally puts rat poison in Hart’s coffee, mistaking it for an artificial sweetener. Before Hart can drink it, he falls and knocks himself unconscious in his office. At first the women think that Violet has indeed killed Hart, and they embark on a wild chase to cover up the crime. Later they discover that Hart wasn’t harmed at all, but their discussion about the incident is overheard by Hart’s nosy personal assistant, Roz Keith, and Hart tries to use the information to blackmail Doralee into having an affair with him after all. Doralee loses her temper and ropes Hart with telephone wires, and Judy fires on Hart with a gun when he escapes his bonds.

With Hart’s wife away on a lengthy cruise, the women decide to kidnap Hart and imprison him in his own home until they can somehow get him to cooperate and forget the whole incident. Violet discovers that Hart has been embezzling money from Consolidated, and the girls plan on using the information to blackmail him. The race is on to see if Hart can escape or if Violet’s documented proof of the scam will arrive in time. The three women work together to make Hart’s absence in the office as inconspicuous as possible, and along the way they take a number of liberties in improving the workplace in ways that they see fit. Hart is accidentally freed when his wife returns early from her cruise, and just when it appears as if he is going to send the girls to jail, a sudden visit from the Chairman of the Board, Russell Tinsworthy, interrupts him. Violet, Judy, and Doralee have made some radical changes while keeping Hart imprisoned, and it seems as if the sudden surge in productivity has caught the attention of Tinsworthy. Since the women did all of it under the false approval of Hart, they can take no credit for it, but fate seems to be on their side: Tinsworthy “rewards” Hart for his good work by immediately removing him from his position and sending him to work on a special project in Brazil, much to the amusement and delight of Violet, Doralee, and Judy.

In the epilogue, it is revealed the Violet took Hart's place as vice president, Judy married the Xerox repairman and quit the company, Doralee became a country music singer (just like the actress that played her), and Hart was kidnapped by natives in the Amazon and never heard from again.

Main article: Nine to Five (TV series)

The movie inspired a sitcom version which aired from 1982 to 1983 and from 1986 to 1988. The show, 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. A Total of 85 episodes were filmed.

Main article: 9 to 5 (musical)

In an interview aired September 30, 2005 on Larry King Live, Parton revealed that she was writing the songs for a musical stage adaptation of the film.^[1] A private reading of the musical finally took place on January 19, 2007^[2] It has a libretto by Patricia Resnick and is being produced by Robert Greenblatt. Further private presentations were held in New York City on June 28, 2007. The workshop cast reportedly includes Allison Janney as Violet, Stephanie J. Block as Judy and Megan Hilty as Doralee with Bebe Neuwirth, Marc Kudisch and Andy Karl, directed by Joe Mantello. Parton, in a radio interview on August 28, 2007, said that the musical would open on Broadway in Spring 2009. ^[3] It has been announced that the musical will have an out of town tryout in Los Angeles at the Ahmanson Theater with Janney, Block and Hilty reprising their roles from the workshop along with Kudisch as Mr. Hart. It is scheduled for September 3 through October 19, 2008. ^[4]

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• The movie's theme song, "9 to 5", became one of Parton's biggest hits of the decade. It went to number one for two weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 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 United Kingdom 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.
• In the middle of the film, Dolly Parton and her colleagues send a nosy manager to the Aspen Language Center in Colorado to learn French. The actual TWA 747 aircraft shown in the film later exploded off Long Island, NY as TWA Flight 800.^{[citation needed]}
• In her autobiography, My Life So Far, Jane Fonda wrote that Dolly Parton committed the entire movie script to memory prior to the commencement of shooting, not realizing that she only needed to know her own dialogue.
• Marian Mercer and Dabney Coleman played husband and wife on the 70's cult Soap opera spoof Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, Dabney played Merle Jeeter, Fernwood's slightly devious mayor, and Marian played his bisexual wife, Wanda Rittenhouse, a former sanitarium patient who was hospitalized with Mary (Louise Lasser).

• "Lady, you're gonna hate it here!"

• Maria: "Julia's quitting. They won't let her work part time."
  Margaret: "Of course they won't. It would make things too convenient."

• "Mr. Hart, I sign your name better than you do!"

• "I'm a widow with four kids. You know, Jerry should never have died. I'd be better off - I could've divorced him."

• "We're gonna need a special locker for the hat."

• "I have never seen anyone leap frog so fast to the top in my life. And I have the bad back to prove it. I remember when he was just a management trainee . . . in fact, I'm the one who trained him."

• "Oh Mr Hart, you didn't make a mistake. You see I'll just have to remember to check, the next time I'm asked to go to work at a convention that there is a convention going on."

• "Four weeks? What are you, out of your mind? You think I'm gonna spend four weeks of my life drifting around on that dago boat?!?"

• "You're foul, Hart. A wart on the nose of humanity, and I'm gonna blast it off!"

• Margaret: "Violet! Where're you going?"
  Violet: "I'm gonna get drunk!"
  Margaret: "Atta girl!"

• Roz: "Oh, Violet, I haven't heard from you. Did you get my memo?"
  Violet: I did, Roz, I tore right through it."

• "I'm as nice as I know how to be to every single person down at that office. Everybody treats me like a bastard at a family reunion."

• "Look I got a gun out there in my purse. And up till now I've been forgivin' and forgettin' because of the way I was brought up. But I tell you one thing - if you ever say another word about me or make another indecent proposal, I'm gonna get that gun of mine. And I'm gonna change you from a rooster to a hen with one shot! Don't think I can't do it!!!"

• Doralee: "Violet, I didn't know you smoked. You roll your own?"
  Violet: "Quiet. We don't have enough for everybody, cool it!"

• "You know, I smoked a marijuana cigarette at a party once. I could never figure out what the big deal was."

• "I'm no fool, I've killed the boss! Do you think they're not gonna fire me for a thing like that?"

• "I'm a doctor! So why the hell am I talking to you? Piss off!"

• Judy: "Oh, this is awful. It's so improper. It's so disrepectful!"
  Violet: "He's dead, he doesn't mind"

• "It looks just like Skinny & Sweet. Except for the little skull and crossbones on the label."

• "Well, I say we hire a couple of wranglers to go upstairs and beat the shit out of him."

• He's got you for poisoning him, and me for roping him, and you for acting like he was first prize at a turkey shoot!"

• "And if I wanna have an affair, or play sex games, or do M&M's, you can't stop me!"

• "Hart: But why? Why?"
  Violet: "Why do you think?"
  Hart: "Because I'm a sexist egotistical lying hypocritical bigot?"
  Violet (grinning): "Bingo!"

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 retirement age. In the DVD commentary, the three reiterate their enthusiasm, Fonda suggests a sequel should cover outsourcing, and they agree Frank Hart would have to return as their nemesis.

1. ^ "Dolly Parton's Anniversary; Walter Cronkite on Peter Jennings" from CNN
2. ^ "Ullman, Ripley, Hilty, Kudisch, Lewis Will Read Nine to Five Musical" from Playbill, January 11, 2007
3. ^ http://www.playbill.com/news/article/110626.html Playbill.com, August 29, 2007
4. ^ http://www.broadwayworld.com/printcolumn.cfm?id=23050

• Nine to Five at the Internet Movie Database