Nine to Five

Judy Bernly, recently divorced, starts her first job as a secretary at Consolidated Companies, where she is taken under the wing of Violet Newstead, a competent and experienced office supervisor. Also working at the company is Doralee Rhodes, personal secretary to their boss, Franklin Hart Jr. Hart is a sexist, egotistical, and dishonest manager who denies Violet a well-deserved promotion (giving it instead to a less-qualified man she trained), sexually harasses Doralee while spreading false rumors among the staff that they are having an affair, and generally treats all three women with condescension and contempt. The three bond over drinks and marijuana, during which each fantasizes elaborately about exacting revenge on Hart — Violet imagines poisoning him like a Disney villainess, Judy pictures herself as a hunter tracking him, and Doralee envisions hog-tying him like a ranch animal. The next morning, a frazzled Violet accidentally puts rat poison in Hart's coffee instead of sweetener. Before he can drink it, Hart slips in the parking garage and knocks himself unconscious. Convinced they have killed him, the three women panic and smuggle Hart's apparently lifeless body out of the hospital in a scheme gone comically wrong — only to discover he is very much alive. Hart attempts to use the situation to blackmail Doralee into a sexual relationship; she refuses, overpowers him with a gun, and the three women take him captive, chaining him to a pulley system in his own home while his wife is away. With Hart incapacitated, the women take turns managing his household and forge his signature to implement a series of progressive workplace reforms at Consolidated: an on-site daycare center, flexible scheduling, job-sharing programs, and equal pay for equal work. Productivity in the office rises by twenty percent as a result. Meanwhile, Judy falls for a fellow employee named Tom, and Violet continues managing the office effectively. Hart eventually escapes his restraints when his wife returns home and frees him, rushing to the office to expose the women — but before he can act, the company's chairman arrives from Brazil, delighted by the productivity gains and new programs. Rather than punish the women, the chairman promotes Violet to vice president and transfers Hart to the company's Brazil office. An epilogue reveals that Violet becomes a successful executive, Judy marries Tom, Doralee leaves the company to pursue a career as a country music singer, and Hart — in a darkly comic coda — is reportedly abducted by Amazon tribeswomen in Brazil.

Sources: Wikipedia