A rare example of a popular entertainment which does better with the critics than with the general public ratings at IMDb.

This is actually an excellent movie. It's a real-life version of Pretty Woman, stripped of all the crap and grounded in things that really could happen. The movie turned Melanie Griffith, at least temporarily, from a bombshell into a credible mainstream star.

Melanie plays a secretary who has the brains, knowledge, and aggressiveness to be a big-time wheeler-dealer in corporate finance, but nobody will give her the chance. She doesn't have the right look (teased hair, cheap jewelry), she doesn't have the right voice (Melanie Griffith), she doesn't talk like she came from either the Wharton School or the Seven Sisters, she grew up on Staten Island, and she got a night school degree.

But she does have the right stuff, if she could only get a chance to use it. She thinks the chance has come when she is assigned to a female boss and can therefore avoid the sexual pursuit that her previous bosses foisted on her. Things go well at first, until she finds out that her boss is simply trying to steal her ideas and take credit for them.