Nine to Five (1980)
 Judy
Bernly (a housewife whose husband left her for his secretary)
begins her own secretarial career at a huge corporation.
Violet Newstead, a feisty, veteran office manager, instructs
her on the perils and procedures of office life, and of working
for Franklin Hart Jr, their chauvinistic, sleazy boss, and his
right-hand woman, the crisp, nosy Roz .
Meanwhile, Hart's endless attempts to seduce his happily
married secretary, Doralee Rhodes (Dolly Parton), lead the entire
office to think she's a trollop.
When Hart unfairly passes Violet over for a promotion, she
drowns her sorrows at a local bar with Judy and Doralee, who
regales the others with tales of Hart's epic advances.
Later, at Doralee's house, the women smoke pot, eat barbecue,
and concoct hilarious revenge fantasies (a rodeo hog-tie, a Wild
West shootout, and a gothic Snow White scenario) about killing
their boss.
When a mix-up leads the women to think they have accidentally
poisoned Hart's coffee, they hatch a scheme to protect themselves
by stealing Hart's body from the morgue.
When he ultimately turns up alive, never having drunk the
coffee, they must kidnap him to prevent him from blackmailing them
or calling the police.
The women then use the occasion of their boss' absence to
effect some big changes around the office.
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