This Is the Thread Where You Reccomend Movies (between 1970 - 1989) That Either Center Around or Feature Women of The Elite Buisness Type and/or the Prototypical Ivy-League Student Type

I don't think "The Paper Chase" (James Bridges, 1973) is considered a great movie--it got a lot of good reviews in its day, but Kael and Kauffmann and most of the better critics considered it pretty junky--but there's a lot about it I like, and it still has a lot of nostalgic value for me. (Some of it was even shot in Toronto, where I live.) I first saw it a few years after it came out and a couple of years before I started university myself, so it made a deep impression--I wanted to *be* Timothy Bottoms, the brilliant, non-materialistic law student with frazzled hair and soulful eyes who goes on mad 48-hour study binges, and the rest of the time romances the professor's beautiful, aloof daughter. It didn't quite happen that way...John Houseman won an Academy Award for his imperious law professor. Best line: "Mr. Hart, here's a dime--go call your mother, and tell her there's *serious* doubt about you becoming a lawyer." Unless you've seen the film, you can't properly appreciate Houseman's enunciation of "serious."

Working Girl.

Lianna (Sayles, 1983)

(Although I think we may have different ideas of prototypical ivy league students.)

In any case, Sigourney Weaver in Ghostbusters must surely be a classic example of the elite business woman type.

chuck eddy has a whole chapter on this phenom in pop music (with some film references) in Accidental History, early on.

It may well be my fav part!

The Secret of my Success

I was definately thinking "Secret to My Success." Also I agree somewhat with the Sigourney Weaver in "Ghost Busters," but I think an even better version of her character, is in "Money Pit" as Anna, played by Shelley Long. There's more buisness and day to day independent intellectual (debateable) woman material than in "Ghost Busters," when Sigourney eventually just changes into the Gozer form.