Melinda comes to Washington DC to visit her friend Debbie, and to find a job in government, where she hopes to do her part to make it better. She gets a lower echelon administrative position at the Pentagon, and finds things pretty slack. Her boss seems to be more interested in getting into her pants than trying to find lost data on the Russians. Melinda resists his advances and begins working her way up in the Pentagon, finding subtle ways of getting her policies implemented by manipulating the slovenly males that populate the Pentagon, including finding a way to defuse the mounting conflict with the Russians
Costume
Peak 1985 power suits and Pentagon fashion crimes against humanity
Production
Somehow filmed actual Pentagon exteriors for this—our tax dollars at work
Director
Andrew Sugerman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Director Andrew Sugerman never directed another feature; this was his spectacular swan song. Walter Gotell (Nabokov) played the Soviet General in six Bond films, making this his ironic Pentagon farewell.
Released weeks after The Return of the Living Dead and same summer as Weird Science, this represents 1985's weirdest attempt to make 'women succeeding in government' into sex comedy fodder. It failed.
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