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While watching this you can learn a lot about old corporate life. Elevator operators, secretarial pools, actuarial pools...and late night drinking/flirting/affairs.

As a woman watching this I can see it would have been hard to break into even a low-level clerical job and the only option was to try to marry for stability. You'd have to have worked before the 1990's when diversity training came to corporate America.

Jack Lemmon's Mr. Nice guy character is a good one for this office. Even though he was selling his soul a little with letting his Apartment become the harem den for his buddies.

Also interesting is a different version of Fred MacMurray and Shirley McLaine in this movie.

This movie.reminded me of Crowe's Singles -a lot! Themed around perceived punk lifestyle in SLC.

I always enjoy coming of age stories and if that's something you like...check it out. Some good acting.

It could easily be a current movie. I feel the tone of the movie was off. It's a screwball take on a movie with a serious message. I wonder if we take ourselves too seriously to appreciate it. It did have an interesting cast. I think I will have to read the book and see if I need to update my review.