Overbearing editor asks her assistant to marry her to avoid deportation, which is A LOT of unpaid overtime.īen Bradlee (Jason Robards) in All the President’s Men:Ī predecessor to Marty Baron from Spotlight, Bradlee goaded his reporters into delivering a devastating expose on President Nixon. Margaret Tate (Sandra Bullock) in The Proposal: Jordan Belfort (Leonardo Dicaprio) in The Wolf of Wall Street: Taking an unretired Robert De Niro under her wing. Jules Ostin (Anne Hathaway) in The Intern: Someone’s gotta approve the expense reports for licenses to kill.īlake (Alec Baldwin) in Glengarry Glen Ross:įamously threatening his crew that only the two top real estate sellers will have a job at the end of the week. Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep) in The Devil Wears Prada:Ī prickly and demanding boss modeled after real fashionista Anna Wintour. Keanu Reeves starts working at a law firm where his boss has more than just power of attorney. John Milton (Al Pacino) in The Devil’s Advocate: Maybe it’s you, Mike you’re toxic to the office workplace.Įbenezer Scrooge (Michael Caine) in The Muppet Christmas Carol: The OG horrible boss. Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) in Wall Street:īut as a boss, Douglas raised hell as Gordon Gekko in Wall Street. Meredith Johnson (Demi Moore) in Disclosure:Ī computer firm is thrown into disarray when incoming boss Moore comes onto old flame/new employee Michael Douglas and then frames him for sexual harassment. Knows where to find the best weed AND Super Mario Maker levels. Is there something about running a futuristic theme park of resurrected dinosaurs that attracts feckless bosses?
With these policies, Wonka should open some movie theaters. Non-discriminatory hiring practices and atomizes obnoxious disruptive children or drowns them in chocolate. Gene Wilder in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory: Julia Harris (Jennifer Aniston) in Horrible Bosses: The movie initially paints him as a corporate budget slasher but Baron paves the way for his Boston Globe team to expose sex abuse in the Catholic Church. Marty Baron (Liev Schreiber) in Spotlight: He may be moody and crazy, but there’s a boss who’s willing to run into collapsing buildings to save some employees.īill Lumbergh (Gary Cole) in Office Space: Bruce Wayne (Ben Affleck) in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice: