The story meanders near the end, but the anticlimax can't quite dispel the movie's warm eccentricity.

A remarkably compassionate portrait of American womanhood that inspires hope without denying reality.

A kind of social realism...there's a real feeling of family, but it's also a workplace, where it's possible for people to be mistreated...stripped-down and unexpected.

...a bitter, caustic but also very funny and wise film about how women have to deal with men’s vanities to eke out a living…has genuine insight to offer about how women might just about overcome a workplace system that’s clearly rigged in favour of men.