Maeve Higgins: ‘Working Girl’ was darker than we knew

None of us are safe in our work, but work is still expected to be the main feature of our lives, writes Maeve Higgins

Melanie Griffith in Working Girl

I KNEW immediately that my first column about life in the United States had to be about Mike Nichols’ 1988 masterpiece Working Girl. Something has been driving me crazy about this film, and writing is a way of thinking, so I’m going to figure out just what that is.

It’s not the part where Melanie Griffith vacuums with no top on. I’m fine about that, because I understand that when it comes to cleaning, we do what we can to make it interesting.