Working Girls (1987 Sundance Award Winner)

Awesome Movie Year

The ninth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1987 features a Sundance Film Festival award winner, Lizzie Borden’s Working Girls. Directed and co-written by Lizzie Borden and starring Louise Smith, Ellen McElduff, Amanda Goodwin and Marusia Zach, Working Girls premiered in the Directors’ Fortnight at the 1986 Cannes Film Festival and won Special Jury Recognition at Sundance in 1987.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode comes from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/working-girls-1987), Vincent Canby in The New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1987/02/27/movies/film-working-girls.html), and Sheila Benson in the Los Angeles Times (https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-03-27-ca-291-story.html).

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