Is Working Girl actually good?

Working Girl sits in the 73.4% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 73.4% of them.

How does Working Girl compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1980s, Working Girl lands in the 70.6% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a film for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is Working Girl's score based on?

144 calibrated reviewers stand behind Working Girl's score.

1988

global pct

73.4

Film · 1988 · Films · 1980s

Working Girl

Name: Working Girl
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Released: 1988

Scored from 144 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1980s (3,141 peers).

73.4%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

70.6%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1980s · 3,141 titles

91.5%

AI-adjusted percentile

144 calibrated reviewers

Summary

An ambitious secretary from Staten Island gets her chance at a Wall Street career when her boss breaks a leg on a skiing trip. Using her boss's office and contacts, she puts together a major merger deal while navigating romance with an investment banker, all while trying to keep her true identity hidden in Manhattan's cutthroat corporate world.

Working Girl (1988) is a film IMDb files under the comedy, drama and romance genres. Inside comedy it is classed as Romcom.

Rotten Tomatoes carries a separate audience for the same title, 931 of whom clear the calibration test. The cohort it is ranked inside is 1980s films — 3,141 of them. The calibrated figure is built from 144 of its IMDb reviewers. A broader pool of 151 reviewers with two or more reviews feeds the raw-average track instead.