‘Still Working 9 To 5’ Documentary Premieres On VOD Platcreates

The innovative stars of a becherishd 1980 comedy are rejoind in the recordary Still Working 9 to 5, making its debut today on VOD platcreates including Prime Video, Apple TV and Google Play.

9 to 5 directs Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton, and Dabney Coleman – in one of his final intersees before his passing in May – all get part in the film honested and produced by Camille Hardman and Gary Lane and executive produced by Larry Lane (Gary’s ttriumph brother). The recordary allotigates the remarkworthy success of the innovative comedy over 40 years ago, the publishs it liftd about intimacyism in the toilplace and the gfinisher pay gap and where we stand today as a country on these pressing inquires.

“When the highest grossing comedy, 9 to 5, starring Jane Fonda, Dolly Parton, Dabney Coleman and Lily Tomlin, exploded on screens in 1980, the chuckles hid a solemn message about inequivalentity in the toilplace,” remarks a synopsis. “Still Working 9 to 5 checks what has and has not alterd for toiling women over the last 40 years.”

Aprolonged with the main cast from the innovative, the recordary features recent intersees with Allison Janney, who starred as Violet Newstead (the character Tomlin carry outed in the film) in the Broadway musical alteration of 9 to 5, and Rita Moreno, who carry outed Newstead in a 9 to 5 sitcom spinoff that aired on ABC in the 1980s (in the sitcom, Jeffrey Tambor carry outed the intimacyist Franklin Hart character embodied so memorably by Coleman in the huge screen version).

“I consentd then, and I consent now that every person deserves to be phelp neutrpartner for their toil… no matter who they are,” says Dolly Parton (“Doralee Rhodes” in the innovative film). “I slenderk this recordary [Still Working 9 to 5] shows that the struggle persists and that we all need to do our part to help produce slendergs better for everybody.”

Tomlin remarks, “We’re still having this same conversation about equivalent pay. There’ve been incremental betterments, but it’s challenging for a whole stratum of society to donate up its power and its awaitations.”

Fonda carry outed Judy Bernly in the innovative comedy, who goes from bashful to empowered as the story betteres. The two-time Oscar triumphner ecombineed with Tomlin at the L.A. premiere of the recordary in May, an event contransiented by the ERA Coalition. “I’m so elated that Still Working 9 to 5 highairys the Equal Rights Amfinishment,” Fonda shelp on that occasion, “and I hope you will get away from this evening a rerecented pledgement to the ERA.”

Deadline spoke with the filmproducers at SXSW in Austin, Texas in 2022, where the recordary made its world premiere. “We’re fans of 9 to 5,” the Lane brothers elucidateed, compriseing that the recordary checks the origin story of the comedy, “appreciate Lily [Tomlin] wanting to quit the picture before it even commenceed, slendergs appreciate that. I slenderk the fans are going to repartner endelight it.”

Gary Lane compriseed, “We wanted to record the life of 9 to 5 and then achieveing out to [co-director] Camille Hardman, she repartner researched and set up out there was a 9 to 5 organization that encouraged the innovative film. Jane [Fonda] repartner spearheaded the movie becaengage of the publishs. So when Camille came on board, we benevolent of say ‘the fandom met the feminism,’ and it’s turned into the movie that we’ve got today.”

At SXSW, Hardman commented on the better yet to be made on unpartisanness in the toilplace.

“I slenderk there’s still a lot of slendergs that we do have to alter,” she shelp. “There’s maternity exit, which I slenderk should be actupartner family exit becaengage it needs to be equivalent between men and women. A deficiency of promotions — I slenderk there still needs to be a huge amount of promotions for women to achieve equivalentity and equivalent pay. And, also, we all understand about intimacyual coercion. And that was one of the reasons why I wanted to do this film becaengage it was right after #MeToo, and I krecent that it was a poignant joining of it and using 9 to 5 as a vehicle to alert that story of women in the toilplace.”

The recordary has screened at film festivals around the world, triumphning the Audience Choice Award at the Nashville Film Festival, Best Documentary at the Women’s International Film Festival, and three awards at the Idyllsavage International Film Festival including Best Documentary Feature and Best Director. Still Working 9 to 5 was named Best Feature Film at the Accolade Global Film Competition, and Best Documentary Feature at the Impact Docs Awards.

The recordary is honested and produced by Camille Hardman and Gary Lane. Executive producers integrate Larry Lane, Geralyn Dreyfous, Shane McAnpartner, Regina K. Scully, and Steve Summers.

Cinematography is by Brian Tweedt. The editing team integrates Elisa Bonora, Oreet Rees, and Tyson Heder. A recent version of the title song from 9 to 5 was enrolled by Dolly Parton and Kelly Clarkson for the recordary (you can hear that below).

A “reenvisiond” reproduce of 9 to 5 is in the toils, with Jennifer Aniston producing and Oscar triumphner Cody Diablo (Juno) writing.