The Labor Day watch list: Dolly’s ‘9 to 5’ kicks off seven shows and movies about work this weekend, plus the free site that shows where each one streams.

🤯 WOW! We lost Dolly Parton. The best tribute isn’t a post, it’s pressing play. She kidnaps her boss in 9 to 5, runs the office better without him and steals every scene. Six more greats follow, including Succession and the GameStop movie.

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The Labor Day watch list: Dolly’s ‘9 to 5’ kicks off seven shows and movies about work this weekend, plus the free site that shows where each one streams. ChatGPT/Kim Komando

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It’s a long holiday weekend, so I figure you might be looking for something not too laborious to watch. Last month, we said goodbye to Dolly Parton. The watch list starts with her, then six more about the job, the boss and the paycheck. Tap a trailer, press play.

🍿 All in a day’s work

  • 9 to 5: Dolly, Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin kidnap their “sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot” of a boss and run the company better without him. Parton wrote the theme song on set, tapping her acrylic nails like a typewriter. Sing along for her. ▶ Trailer
  • Succession: Four seasons of the billionaire Roy family knife-fighting over Dad’s media empire. The rich are not OK, and it’s delicious. ▶ Trailer
  • The Office: The comfort-food rewatch, 200-plus episodes of Dunder Mifflin. That’s what she said. ▶ Trailer
  • Air: Matt Damon and Ben Affleck on the day a struggling Nike bet the whole shoe budget on a rookie named Michael Jordan. Best sales pitch ever filmed. ▶ Trailer
  • Dumb Money: The true GameStop story. A guy in a cat T-shirt rallies regular folks on Reddit, and together they briefly break Wall Street. ▶ Trailer
  • The Founder: Michael Keaton as Ray Kroc, the milkshake-machine salesman who took McDonald’s away from the brothers who built it. You’ll never look at fries the same way. ▶ Trailer
  • The Intern: Robert De Niro, a 70-year-old widower, outworks everyone at Anne Hathaway’s startup. Proof experience never goes out of style. ▶ Trailer

FYI, Succession and Dumb Money earn their ratings. Language, mostly. OK, entirely.

🔎 Where’s it streaming? 

Notice I didn’t say which service has what. On purpose. Streaming rights hop around monthly, and what’s true today is wrong by noon tomorrow.

Use the tool I use: JustWatch.com (free, no account needed). Type any title, and it shows every place it’s streaming, renting or selling, with prices. Two power moves:

  1. Tap the “Free” filter. It surfaces what streams at zero cost on ad-supported services. Free beats another $7.99 trial you’ll forget to cancel.
  2. Set up “My Services.” Check off the services you pay for, and it only shows those. No more renting a movie you already have. That’s your cash walking out the door.

Celebrate the American worker the right way this weekend. Watch other people have a worse Monday than you’ll ever have. And Dolly? Thanks for pouring yourself a cup of ambition. You were amazing. 💕

🎯 Send this to someone who has “9 to 5” stuck in their head this week anyway.