New Girl in the Office (Part II)

★★★ · Richard Nixon: King of all black people. · Spuzz · 2003-12-07

Pretty good docudrama for it's day about an office just about to hire it's first black woman for a secretary, and the ramifications it has in the office. It was quite surprising seeing the credit list and finding out that Ed Asner and Ford Rainey were in the production somewhere. The acting ranges from Very good to shaky, and the script sometimes can't veer above soap opera level. (The discussion which the new girl has with her family is pretty bad, as both actors seem to have arrived from a road production of 'Lilies Of The Field'. All in all, an 'important' film I'm sure for it's time, but…