This week, in your Sunday night movie, Melissa McCarthy abandons all bridesmaiding and ghostbusting to become the titular nasty in your Sunday night movie on M-Net, The Boss.
In honour of her role, weโre taking a look at five more bad bosses of cinema.
Dr. Julia Harris, Horrible Bosses
Jennifer Aniston long ago proved she had more to offer than the riches-to-rags Rachel. She proves her acting mettle once more as one of the horrible bosses of the title who subjects the poor, hapless Dale Arbus to her unwelcome sexual advancements.
Franklin Hart, Jr, 9 to 5
Sexual harassment and sexism are treated more centrally in this seminal โ80s comedy starring Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin and Dolly Parton. The trio, continually pawed and passed over, dream up ways of getting revenge against their sleazy boss.
Katharine Parker, Working Girl
Sigourney Weaver defied aliens, but in this โ80s classic itโs Melanie Griffith who must defy Weaverโs manipulative Parker: a boss so puerile she steals her employeeโs ideas in order to fob them off as her own.
Gordon Gekko, Wall Street
โGreed, for lack of a better word, is good.โ This is Gordon Gekkoโs mantra, which gives you a hint to just how low heโll go. Michael Douglas delivers an Oscar-winning turn as the unscrupulous Gekko who will walk over anyone who gets in the way of him getting richer.
Bill Lumbergh, Office Space
Admin. Micromanagement. Words that make the best office workers shudder in their shoes. These are precisely the reasons the employees of Initech bemoan working for the infuriating Lumbergh, his fastidiousness leaving no room for inspiration.
Get enough of bad bosses at work? Unwind with your other Sunday night movie selections.
On M-Met Movies Premiere at 20:30, Gerard Butler and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau go epic in the Alex Proyas directed Gods of Egypt.
On M-Net Edge at 21:00, two brothers get over past grievances in the Icelandic drama RAMS.