What the corpus says about Working Girl (1988)

The 58 lines php artisan corpus:ask hands a model, in the order it gets them, and nothing else. The model writes a clerk's answer from these and only these.

What was said about it (26)

[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 1:11:10 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Working Girl ⇒ Working Girl (1990 NBC series) (the host's read) · programming · Working Girl became a 1990 NBC series, with Sandra Bullock as Tess. · "Working Girl became an NBC series in 1990"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:04:54 · unknown (0.40)] Working Girl ↔ Morning Glory · programming · Morning Glory is a triple-feature pick; Rachel McAdams as the working girl with Harrison Ford. · "Rachel McAdams working girl."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:05:09 · unknown (0.40)] Working Girl ⇒ Pretty Woman (the host's read) · programming · Pairing Working Girl and Pretty Woman as a Cinderella double feature to see what Pretty Woman took. · "It double Cinderella and then you're watching Purdue Woman seeing all the things they took."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:05:13 · unknown (0.40)] Working Girl ↔ Witness · programming · Witness is the double feature for double Harrison Ford. · "There's also Witness as just double hot Harrison Ford."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:05:16 · unknown (0.30)] Working Girl ↔ The Devil Wears Prada · programming · Pairing Prada is suggested as a 1988-2006 double feature. · "Well, I think that there's a Devil Wears Prada cases."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:05:30 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Working Girl ↔ Baby Boom · programming · Baby Boom is the top double-feature pick because it is less seen. · "I think my number one would be Baby Boom because it's not as seen."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 0:08:48 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Working Girl ⇒ Pretty Woman (the host's read) · lineage · Pretty Woman borrows openly from Working Girl's Cinderella story. · "It openly steal shit from this movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 0:13:35 · Joanna Robinson (0.40)] Working Girl ⇒ The Devil Wears Prada (the host's read) · lineage · Working Girl sprinkled its DNA over later beloved movies, Pretty Woman and Devil Wears Prada chief among them. · "And it's just sprinkling DNA over all these beloved movies over the next 40 years, but those were Pretty Woman and Devil wears Prada were the 2 that I was like, oh, yeah."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 1:13:08 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] An Officer and a Gentleman ⇒ Working Girl (the host's read) · lineage · The kiss-and-secretaries-cheer moment is an Officer and a Gentleman homage. · "And then I had the officer and a gentleman homage when they're kissing and one of the secretaries says, way to go."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:11:42 · unknown (0.40)] Working Girl ↔ You've Got Mail · lineage · You've Got Mail is a remake of an old story, showing remakes can work. · "that's a story that had already been made like 3 other times before it was made for the AOL era."
[The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:48:43 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Send Help ↔ Working Girl · lineage · The office-revenge opening resembles Working Girl. · "it starts out as kind of swimming with sharks meets working girl."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 0:08:19 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Working Girl ↔ Younger · theme · The pretending-to-be-someone-else-at-work premise is like the TV show Younger. · "Oh, well, that's like the TV show Younger, essentially."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 0:08:50 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Working Girl ↔ Baby Boom · theme · One of the late-80s female-empowerment workplace comedies the 1980s produced alongside Working Girl. · "the female empowerment workplace comedy stuff that is like, for the 80s, because you have baby boom here, too."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 0:08:59 · unknown (0.30)] Working Girl ↔ Broadcast News · theme · Grouped with Working Girl as part of the era of the professional woman on screen. · "broadcast news in like a slightly different way."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 0:11:19 · unknown (0.40)] Working Girl ↔ Nine to Five · theme · One of the few 80s movies with the same workplace-sexism theme. · "Nine to five."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 1:10:37 · unknown (0.40)] Working Girl ↔ The Princess Diaries · theme · The hot mess, stealth-smart, underestimated heroine archetype recurs in Princess Diaries and Prada. · "Princess Diaries."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 1:20:17 · unknown (0.50)] Working Girl ↔ Die Hard · theme · Another absurd-premise movie that works; used to defend Working Girl's far-fetched merger plot. · "So is Die Hard."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 1:21:02 · unknown (0.40)] Working Girl ↔ Pretty Woman · theme · Both have absurd premises that work because the human emotion works. · "Pretty woman's absurd."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:01:42 · unknown (0.30)] Working Girl ↔ The Karate Kid · theme · Flipping the villain's perspective as with Cobra Kai: Catherine as a victim of her assistant. · "Karate Kid, when they made the Cobra Kai, and they were like, we're flipping this."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:15:22 · unknown (0.30)] Working Girl ↔ Picture Perfect · theme · Another rom-com where somebody is pretending. · "That's another one where somebody's pretending."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 1:27:52 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Working Girl ↔ Beverly Hills Cop · craft · 'I'm So Excited' is in Working Girl and Beverly Hills Cop: a ten-year pop-culture run. · "It's in Beverly Hills Cop."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 0:09:07 · unknown (0.40)] Working Girl ↔ Fatal Attraction · contrast · Fatal Attraction is the reverse: the professional woman pays for it with the home she lacks. · "Fatal attraction is also like the reverse of it, right?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 0:48:40 · unknown (0.40)] Working Girl ↔ Die Hard · contrast · Die Hard would not be nominated the way Working Girl was with six Oscar nominations. · "Die Hard's not going to get nominated for something, but working girl is such an improbable."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 1:43:57 · unknown (0.30)] Working Girl ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · contrast · Wall Street/Wolf of Wall Street was done by the show and is a very different movie. · "It's a very different movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 1:57:57 · unknown (0.40)] Working Girl ↔ Presumed Innocent · contrast · Harrison Ford rarely does sex scenes; Presumed Innocent is the only time he really does. · "Just presumed innocent."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:02:25 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Working Girl ↔ The Devil Wears Prada · contrast · Prada knows its heroine becomes a bad person; Working Girl is not written that way. · "But I but the movie knows that and is written that way."

Films put beside it more than once (5)

[pairs] Working Girl ↔ Rain Man · said 4 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Working Girl ↔ Pretty Woman · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Working Girl ↔ The Devil Wears Prada · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Working Girl ↔ Die Hard · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Working Girl ↔ Baby Boom · said 2 times in 1 episode

Fun items about it (6)

[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 0:06:44 · unknown (0.40)] Working Girl · fun · Griffith is billed third behind Weaver and Ford even though it is her movie, which mirrors the story. · "Griffith Billing is 3rd behind Sigourney Weaver, the boss, and then Harrison Ford."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 0:59:57 · unknown (0.40)] Working Girl · fun · Final rewatchable pick: the end scene with the new assistant, 'I don't expect you to fetch me coffee.' · "I don't expect you to fetch me coffee unless you're getting some for yourself."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 1:04:15 · unknown (0.40)] Working Girl · fun · Rewatchables category 'most 1988 thing': hair, eyeshadow, shoulder pads through the blouse, the Twin Towers, Lark cigarettes, Catherine's wooden exercise bike. · "But my number one other than the hair is Catherine's exercise bike."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 1:08:43 · unknown (0.40)] Working Girl · fun · Tequila gold as the dangerous 80s order; the table jokes tequila was basically cocaine back then. · "In the 80s, people were afraid of tequila."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 1:15:25 · unknown (0.40)] Working Girl · fun · Opening cut used the Eagles' Witchy Woman; Carly Simon objected, and Nichols promised to use hers at the end. · "That absolutely ruins the movie if it's Witchy Woman."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 1:16:18 · unknown (0.40)] Working Girl · fun · Best real estate: Catherine Parker's corner office with harbor and Statue of Liberty view; Amanda's award. · "Catherine Parker's office with that with the view."

One hop out: what recommends the films most often joined to it (14)

[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:10:26 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Gigli ↔ Rain Man · theme · Justin Bartha's Rain Man impression in Gigli is called a nuclear holocaust his career survived. · "The hangovers Justin Bartha submits a nuclear holocaust of a rainman impression that his career somehow survived."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:29:39 · Mallory Rubin (0.40)] Pretty Woman ↔ The Rewatchables (series) · programming · Pretty Woman is next week's Rewatchable. · "prep for next week's rewatchable."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:19:21 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Father of the Bride ↔ Baby Boom · lineage · Baby Boom has some of the Meyers aesthetics (the Vermont kitchen), but Father of the Bride is where the full Nancy Meyers formula clicks in. · "I think Father of the Bride is really where you see the Nancy Myers formula, just like clicking in the house, the kitchen, the skirt suits"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:15:44 · Chris Ryan (0.80)] Die Hard 2 ↔ Die Hard · lineage · Ryan says the first and third Die Hard are baked into their locations, while this one is more generic action movie-ish. · "the 1st Die Hard and the 3rd Die Hard are characterized by their, like, this is really baked in."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:30:06 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Amanda Dobbins ↔ Pretty Woman · programming · Pick 2 (round 1), category Oscar nominee: Perfect romcom, her number-two romantic comedy, launched Julia Roberts. · "When Harry Met Sally in 1989 is my number one romantic comedy of all time, but I think Pretty Woman might be number two."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:19:21 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] Baby Boom ↔ Father of the Bride · craft · The house and kitchen look of Nancy Meyers movies starts in Baby Boom and clicks into place in Father of the Bride. · "Baby Booms has some of the aesthetics, like the Vermont home that Diane Keaton moves to has a beautiful kitchen, but I think Father of the Bride is really where you see the Nancy Myers formula"
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:00:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Die Hard ⇒ Resident Evil (the host's read) · lineage · The shoes-melting beat is called a Die Hard nod (walking on broken glass). · "You have that wonderful diehard nod where his shoes are starting to melt and he has to take his shoes off."
[The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 0:57:57 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] The Player ↔ Pretty Woman · theme · The recurring pitch-as-mashup joke (Out of Africa meets Pretty Woman) and the running Julia Roberts and Bruce Willis casting gag. · "How Julia Roberts and Bruce Willis get suggested for every movie is just a funny running bit."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 0:14:30 · David Sims (0.45)] The Detective ⇒ Die Hard (the host's read) · lineage · Sinatra's rights deal on The Detective gave him first refusal on follow-ups, so Die Hard had to be offered to him. · "something in the deal for when Sinatra had bought the rights to the detective, gave him right of 1st refusal on any of the follow-ups"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:58:14 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Panic Room ↔ Die Hard · theme · Bearer bonds as plot device: not since Die Hard has there been 25 minutes on bearer bonds. · "Not since Die Hard have we spent 25 minutes on bear bonds."
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:29:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Resident Evil ↔ Die Hard · theme · Abrams's Brian reminded the speaker of John McClane, with humor built from the experience; the elevator shoe-melting is a Die Hard nod. · "He's not as cool and he's not as accomplished with a gun, but he kind of reminded me a little John McClain at times."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:30:13 · Sarah Marshall (0.60)] Paths of Glory ↔ Die Hard · theme · The FBI men in Die Hard accept losing 25 percent of the hostages, the same numbers-game thinking as the generals. · "the FBI are like, yeah, we're going to lose 25% of the hostages, but like, that's pretty good for us."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:45:06 · unknown (0.40)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ Die Hard · craft · The hero who is capable but visibly working it out is what the imitators miss; same as John McClane. · "it's the same thing that works about John McLean in the 1st Die Hard."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 0:27:13 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Jan de Bont ↔ Die Hard · craft · De Bont as cool DP turned maker of accessible action films was a model of who filmmakers wanted to be. · "Cool ass DP that comes from doing that and makes these awesome, ridiculously accessible action films"

Who said it, by their latest sketch (4)

[speaker] Bill Simmons · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Loves the Friday series as a communal, rental-era memory and tells childhood stories about the ads and theaters. Likes casting what-ifs and sports analogies for everything. Skeptical of horror at Christmas and of anything that wastes the premise. · stances: Friday the 13th is not the best entry but the origin story had to be told; Friday 2 is a leap over the original
[speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
[speaker] Joanna Robinson · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · Calls Working Girl a top five 80s movie and loves the yuppie cinema of the late 80s, especially its women. Digs into casting history and biographies, loves Mike Nichols, and takes the practical-movie-detail view of what ages well or badly. A sucker for the meet-cute at the bar. · stances: Working Girl is a top five 80s movie; Should have won Best Picture over Rain Man; Meet-cute at the bar is the most rewatchable scene; Researched casting what-ifs and cross-checked the Nichols biography
[speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license

The shows' running bits (3)

[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)
[bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

The whole prompt

As the model gets it, from app/Ai/Prompts/CorpusAsk.md

You are a clerk at Video Culture, a video store. A customer just finished Working Girl (1988) and wants to know what to watch next.

Below is what people who love movies said on three podcasts (Blank Check, The Rewatchables, The Big Picture) about Working Girl (1988) and the films around it, one line each. Every line starts with where it came from, in brackets: [show · episode · time · speaker (how sure we are it was them)]. A [pairs] line says how often two films were put side by side. A [speaker] line says what that person likes. A [bits] line lists a show's running bits: a format, not an opinion.

[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 1:11:10 · Bill Simmons (0.70)] Working Girl ⇒ Working Girl (1990 NBC series) (the host's read) · programming · Working Girl became a 1990 NBC series, with Sandra Bullock as Tess. · "Working Girl became an NBC series in 1990"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:04:54 · unknown (0.40)] Working Girl ↔ Morning Glory · programming · Morning Glory is a triple-feature pick; Rachel McAdams as the working girl with Harrison Ford. · "Rachel McAdams working girl."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:05:09 · unknown (0.40)] Working Girl ⇒ Pretty Woman (the host's read) · programming · Pairing Working Girl and Pretty Woman as a Cinderella double feature to see what Pretty Woman took. · "It double Cinderella and then you're watching Purdue Woman seeing all the things they took."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:05:13 · unknown (0.40)] Working Girl ↔ Witness · programming · Witness is the double feature for double Harrison Ford. · "There's also Witness as just double hot Harrison Ford."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:05:16 · unknown (0.30)] Working Girl ↔ The Devil Wears Prada · programming · Pairing Prada is suggested as a 1988-2006 double feature. · "Well, I think that there's a Devil Wears Prada cases."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:05:30 · Amanda Dobbins (0.40)] Working Girl ↔ Baby Boom · programming · Baby Boom is the top double-feature pick because it is less seen. · "I think my number one would be Baby Boom because it's not as seen."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 0:08:48 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Working Girl ⇒ Pretty Woman (the host's read) · lineage · Pretty Woman borrows openly from Working Girl's Cinderella story. · "It openly steal shit from this movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 0:13:35 · Joanna Robinson (0.40)] Working Girl ⇒ The Devil Wears Prada (the host's read) · lineage · Working Girl sprinkled its DNA over later beloved movies, Pretty Woman and Devil Wears Prada chief among them. · "And it's just sprinkling DNA over all these beloved movies over the next 40 years, but those were Pretty Woman and Devil wears Prada were the 2 that I was like, oh, yeah."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 1:13:08 · Bill Simmons (0.40)] An Officer and a Gentleman ⇒ Working Girl (the host's read) · lineage · The kiss-and-secretaries-cheer moment is an Officer and a Gentleman homage. · "And then I had the officer and a gentleman homage when they're kissing and one of the secretaries says, way to go."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:11:42 · unknown (0.40)] Working Girl ↔ You've Got Mail · lineage · You've Got Mail is a remake of an old story, showing remakes can work. · "that's a story that had already been made like 3 other times before it was made for the AOL era."
[The Big Picture · The 10 Most Misused Stars in Hollywood and the Gnarly Magic of ‘Send Help’ · 0:48:43 · Sean Fennessey (0.70)] Send Help ↔ Working Girl · lineage · The office-revenge opening resembles Working Girl. · "it starts out as kind of swimming with sharks meets working girl."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 0:08:19 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Working Girl ↔ Younger · theme · The pretending-to-be-someone-else-at-work premise is like the TV show Younger. · "Oh, well, that's like the TV show Younger, essentially."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 0:08:50 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Working Girl ↔ Baby Boom · theme · One of the late-80s female-empowerment workplace comedies the 1980s produced alongside Working Girl. · "the female empowerment workplace comedy stuff that is like, for the 80s, because you have baby boom here, too."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 0:08:59 · unknown (0.30)] Working Girl ↔ Broadcast News · theme · Grouped with Working Girl as part of the era of the professional woman on screen. · "broadcast news in like a slightly different way."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 0:11:19 · unknown (0.40)] Working Girl ↔ Nine to Five · theme · One of the few 80s movies with the same workplace-sexism theme. · "Nine to five."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 1:10:37 · unknown (0.40)] Working Girl ↔ The Princess Diaries · theme · The hot mess, stealth-smart, underestimated heroine archetype recurs in Princess Diaries and Prada. · "Princess Diaries."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 1:20:17 · unknown (0.50)] Working Girl ↔ Die Hard · theme · Another absurd-premise movie that works; used to defend Working Girl's far-fetched merger plot. · "So is Die Hard."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 1:21:02 · unknown (0.40)] Working Girl ↔ Pretty Woman · theme · Both have absurd premises that work because the human emotion works. · "Pretty woman's absurd."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:01:42 · unknown (0.30)] Working Girl ↔ The Karate Kid · theme · Flipping the villain's perspective as with Cobra Kai: Catherine as a victim of her assistant. · "Karate Kid, when they made the Cobra Kai, and they were like, we're flipping this."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:15:22 · unknown (0.30)] Working Girl ↔ Picture Perfect · theme · Another rom-com where somebody is pretending. · "That's another one where somebody's pretending."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 1:27:52 · Bill Simmons (0.60)] Working Girl ↔ Beverly Hills Cop · craft · 'I'm So Excited' is in Working Girl and Beverly Hills Cop: a ten-year pop-culture run. · "It's in Beverly Hills Cop."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 0:09:07 · unknown (0.40)] Working Girl ↔ Fatal Attraction · contrast · Fatal Attraction is the reverse: the professional woman pays for it with the home she lacks. · "Fatal attraction is also like the reverse of it, right?"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 0:48:40 · unknown (0.40)] Working Girl ↔ Die Hard · contrast · Die Hard would not be nominated the way Working Girl was with six Oscar nominations. · "Die Hard's not going to get nominated for something, but working girl is such an improbable."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 1:43:57 · unknown (0.30)] Working Girl ↔ The Wolf of Wall Street · contrast · Wall Street/Wolf of Wall Street was done by the show and is a very different movie. · "It's a very different movie."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 1:57:57 · unknown (0.40)] Working Girl ↔ Presumed Innocent · contrast · Harrison Ford rarely does sex scenes; Presumed Innocent is the only time he really does. · "Just presumed innocent."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 2:02:25 · Amanda Dobbins (0.50)] Working Girl ↔ The Devil Wears Prada · contrast · Prada knows its heroine becomes a bad person; Working Girl is not written that way. · "But I but the movie knows that and is written that way."
[pairs] Working Girl ↔ Rain Man · said 4 times in 2 episodes
[pairs] Working Girl ↔ Pretty Woman · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Working Girl ↔ The Devil Wears Prada · said 3 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Working Girl ↔ Die Hard · said 2 times in 1 episode
[pairs] Working Girl ↔ Baby Boom · said 2 times in 1 episode
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 0:06:44 · unknown (0.40)] Working Girl · fun · Griffith is billed third behind Weaver and Ford even though it is her movie, which mirrors the story. · "Griffith Billing is 3rd behind Sigourney Weaver, the boss, and then Harrison Ford."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 0:59:57 · unknown (0.40)] Working Girl · fun · Final rewatchable pick: the end scene with the new assistant, 'I don't expect you to fetch me coffee.' · "I don't expect you to fetch me coffee unless you're getting some for yourself."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 1:04:15 · unknown (0.40)] Working Girl · fun · Rewatchables category 'most 1988 thing': hair, eyeshadow, shoulder pads through the blouse, the Twin Towers, Lark cigarettes, Catherine's wooden exercise bike. · "But my number one other than the hair is Catherine's exercise bike."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 1:08:43 · unknown (0.40)] Working Girl · fun · Tequila gold as the dangerous 80s order; the table jokes tequila was basically cocaine back then. · "In the 80s, people were afraid of tequila."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 1:15:25 · unknown (0.40)] Working Girl · fun · Opening cut used the Eagles' Witchy Woman; Carly Simon objected, and Nichols promised to use hers at the end. · "That absolutely ruins the movie if it's Witchy Woman."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · 1:16:18 · unknown (0.40)] Working Girl · fun · Best real estate: Catherine Parker's corner office with harbor and Statue of Liberty view; Amanda's award. · "Catherine Parker's office with that with the view."
[The Rewatchables · A CR Month Mailbag! · 1:10:26 · Bill Simmons (0.50)] Gigli ↔ Rain Man · theme · Justin Bartha's Rain Man impression in Gigli is called a nuclear holocaust his career survived. · "The hangovers Justin Bartha submits a nuclear holocaust of a rainman impression that his career somehow survived."
[The Rewatchables · ‘The Natural’ · 0:29:39 · Mallory Rubin (0.40)] Pretty Woman ↔ The Rewatchables (series) · programming · Pretty Woman is next week's Rewatchable. · "prep for next week's rewatchable."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:19:21 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Father of the Bride ↔ Baby Boom · lineage · Baby Boom has some of the Meyers aesthetics (the Vermont kitchen), but Father of the Bride is where the full Nancy Meyers formula clicks in. · "I think Father of the Bride is really where you see the Nancy Myers formula, just like clicking in the house, the kitchen, the skirt suits"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Die Hard 2’ · 0:15:44 · Chris Ryan (0.80)] Die Hard 2 ↔ Die Hard · lineage · Ryan says the first and third Die Hard are baked into their locations, while this one is more generic action movie-ish. · "the 1st Die Hard and the 3rd Die Hard are characterized by their, like, this is really baked in."
[The Big Picture · The 1990 Movie Draft · 0:30:06 · Amanda Dobbins (0.85)] Amanda Dobbins ↔ Pretty Woman · programming · Pick 2 (round 1), category Oscar nominee: Perfect romcom, her number-two romantic comedy, launched Julia Roberts. · "When Harry Met Sally in 1989 is my number one romantic comedy of all time, but I think Pretty Woman might be number two."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Father of the Bride’ · 0:19:21 · Amanda Dobbins (0.70)] Baby Boom ↔ Father of the Bride · craft · The house and kitchen look of Nancy Meyers movies starts in Baby Boom and clicks into place in Father of the Bride. · "Baby Booms has some of the aesthetics, like the Vermont home that Diane Keaton moves to has a beautiful kitchen, but I think Father of the Bride is really where you see the Nancy Myers formula"
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 1:00:42 · Sean Fennessey (0.50)] Die Hard ⇒ Resident Evil (the host's read) · lineage · The shoes-melting beat is called a Die Hard nod (walking on broken glass). · "You have that wonderful diehard nod where his shoes are starting to melt and he has to take his shoes off."
[The Rewatchables · 'The Player' · 0:57:57 · Bill Simmons (0.80)] The Player ↔ Pretty Woman · theme · The recurring pitch-as-mashup joke (Out of Africa meets Pretty Woman) and the running Julia Roberts and Bruce Willis casting gag. · "How Julia Roberts and Bruce Willis get suggested for every movie is just a funny running bit."
[Blank Check — Patreon · The Killing · 0:14:30 · David Sims (0.45)] The Detective ⇒ Die Hard (the host's read) · lineage · Sinatra's rights deal on The Detective gave him first refusal on follow-ups, so Die Hard had to be offered to him. · "something in the deal for when Sinatra had bought the rights to the detective, gave him right of 1st refusal on any of the follow-ups"
[The Rewatchables · ‘Panic Room’ (Plus a Mini Will Smith–Oscars Recap) · 0:58:14 · Chris Ryan (0.50)] Panic Room ↔ Die Hard · theme · Bearer bonds as plot device: not since Die Hard has there been 25 minutes on bearer bonds. · "Not since Die Hard have we spent 25 minutes on bear bonds."
[The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · 0:29:24 · Sean Fennessey (0.55)] Resident Evil ↔ Die Hard · theme · Abrams's Brian reminded the speaker of John McClane, with humor built from the experience; the elevator shoe-melting is a Die Hard nod. · "He's not as cool and he's not as accomplished with a gun, but he kind of reminded me a little John McClain at times."
[Blank Check — Patreon · Paths of Glory · 0:30:13 · Sarah Marshall (0.60)] Paths of Glory ↔ Die Hard · theme · The FBI men in Die Hard accept losing 25 percent of the hostages, the same numbers-game thinking as the generals. · "the FBI are like, yeah, we're going to lose 25% of the hostages, but like, that's pretty good for us."
[Blank Check · Raiders of the Lost Ark · 2:45:06 · unknown (0.40)] Raiders of the Lost Ark ↔ Die Hard · craft · The hero who is capable but visibly working it out is what the imitators miss; same as John McClane. · "it's the same thing that works about John McLean in the 1st Die Hard."
[The Rewatchables · ‘Twister’ · 0:27:13 · Chris Ryan (0.40)] Jan de Bont ↔ Die Hard · craft · De Bont as cool DP turned maker of accessible action films was a model of who filmmakers wanted to be. · "Cool ass DP that comes from doing that and makes these awesome, ridiculously accessible action films"
[speaker] Bill Simmons · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Friday the 13th’ · Loves the Friday series as a communal, rental-era memory and tells childhood stories about the ads and theaters. Likes casting what-ifs and sports analogies for everything. Skeptical of horror at Christmas and of anything that wastes the premise. · stances: Friday the 13th is not the best entry but the origin story had to be told; Friday 2 is a leap over the original
[speaker] Amanda Dobbins · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Mamma Mia!’ Meets ‘The Strangers'! It’s a Movie Swap! · Loves The Strangers' withholding craft and a good tense horror film without gore, but likes fun, communal movies like Mamma Mia. She dislikes supernatural or gory horror, which irritates her more than it scares her. She is a sucker for stars and for Googling a movie mid-recording. · stances: The Strangers is scary because of what it doesn't show or explain; Ending explanation weakens it; no answer would be better; Prefers 'withholding' filmmaking; Defends Mamma Mia as joyful and intentional
[speaker] Joanna Robinson · latest sketch, The Rewatchables · ‘Working Girl’ · Calls Working Girl a top five 80s movie and loves the yuppie cinema of the late 80s, especially its women. Digs into casting history and biographies, loves Mike Nichols, and takes the practical-movie-detail view of what ages well or badly. A sucker for the meet-cute at the bar. · stances: Working Girl is a top five 80s movie; Should have won Best Picture over Rain Man; Meet-cute at the bar is the most rewatchable scene; Researched casting what-ifs and cross-checked the Nichols biography
[speaker] Sean Fennessey · latest sketch, The Big Picture · ‘Resident Evil’ Absolutely Rips! · Loves gory, funny, fast genre movies with craft and confidence, especially 87-minute films that never overstay. Can't stand ponderous elevated horror that fills out its runtime with introspection and sad family history. A sucker for the Carpenter-era lineage, Die Hard homages, and directors who break studio dogma. · stances: Resident Evil is one of the best films of the year; Horror movies have become a drag; fun genre experiences are needed; Short running times are a virtue; Video-game films work best when great filmmakers get creative license
[bits] The Big Picture: Drafts (Hosts and guests draft films in rounds; every pick is a recommendation with an argument); Hall of Fame (A star's or director's best, ranked and argued); Countdowns (Ranked lists, top five or top ten)
[bits] Blank Check: The box office game (Guessing the film's opening weekend and what it was up against); The sung theme ("Blank Check with Griffin and David", sung; the transcriber garbles it)
[bits] The Rewatchables: Apex Mountain (The moment a star peaks; where on the mountain a performance sits); Who Won the Movie (The hosts name the person who came out of the film best off); The Ebert review (Roger Ebert's original review and star rating read aloud. Ebert is cited, never on the show); Casting what-ifs (Who was almost cast, or who should have been); Most rewatchable scene (The scene each host would stop on while flipping channels); Aged best / aged worst (What holds up and what does not); Picking Nits (The little things in a film the hosts love that they don't think totally work: the nits); Double feature (The film each host would pair it with; a programming pick)

Recommend three to six films, and only films that appear in these lines. A series, a TV film, or a franchise counts too when a line recommends it or pairs it with Working Girl (1988); name it the way the line names it. Don't recommend Working Girl (1988) itself. For each one, give one short reason in your own words and say whose reason it is: the show, named exactly as the brackets name it, and the speaker when the line names one (an "unknown" speaker is just the show). If the lines are thin, say so plainly rather than stretching them.

Keep a contrast a contrast. When a line sets two films apart, the reason is how they differ; never turn it into a way they're alike. A line with ⇒ puts the source first and what drew on it second, and one marked "the maker said so" is still the host reporting it: say who said it, and never state an influence as fact.

You know only what's on these lines. Add no fact they don't state: not who directed a film, not what kind of film it is, not when it came out, unless a line says so. Say nothing about the store or how anything rents here.

Talk the way a clerk talks to a customer at the counter: plain text, titles written plainly with no asterisks or other markup, no headings, no lists of more than six, no JSON.