Other than some very dated office equipment scenes and references to a more laid-back attitude about smoking pot (ahhhh, those were the days), this movie holds up incredibly well. I know dozens of people who freely admit that this movie made them laugh in 1980 and still does when aired on TNT.
I remember watching it over and over and over and over and over again in 1981 on the then-nascent HBO during a rare Atlanta snowstorm. I've probably seen it 50 times, and it still makes me smile. It is unquestionably Dolly Parton's reigning celluloid moment, even though it was her first movie. Lily Tomlin ("Violet Neustead, please hold") is fantastic, even though she inexplicably takes her jacket on and off again at the oddest times. Jane Fonda, playing against type, is a meek mouse...a far cry from her incredibly strong roles in The China Syndrome, California Suite, et.al.) All of the reviews on imdb praise Dabney Coleman, and he was fine, but not amazing.
Most of all, the chemistry between Dolly, Lilly and Jane is perhaps unparalleled in the nearly quarter-century (ouch!) since this film was made.
I remember watching it over and over and over and over and over again in 1981 on the then-nascent HBO during a rare Atlanta snowstorm. I've probably seen it 50 times, and it still makes me smile. It is unquestionably Dolly Parton's reigning celluloid moment, even though it was her first movie. Lily Tomlin ("Violet Neustead, please hold") is fantastic, even though she inexplicably takes her jacket on and off again at the oddest times. Jane Fonda, playing against type, is a meek mouse...a far cry from her incredibly strong roles in The China Syndrome, California Suite, et.al.) All of the reviews on imdb praise Dabney Coleman, and he was fine, but not amazing.
Most of all, the chemistry between Dolly, Lilly and Jane is perhaps unparalleled in the nearly quarter-century (ouch!) since this film was made.