What is a 1988 romantic comedy-drama film directed by Mike Nichols and written by Kevin Wade, that stars an American actress which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress and won her a Golden Globe?
Melanie Griffith Melanie Richards Griffith (born August 9, 1957) is an American actress. Griffith began her career as an adolescent in nonspeaking film roles before making her credited debut opposite Gene Hackman in Arthur Penn's "Night Moves" (1975). She rose to prominence for her role in Brian De Palma's "Body Double" (1984), which earned her a National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress. Griffith's subsequent performance in "Something Wild" (1986) garnered critical acclaim before she was cast in 1988's "Working Girl", which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress and won her a Golden Globe.
For Queen and Country For Queen and Country is a 1988 British-American crime drama film co-written and directed by Martin Stellman and starring Denzel Washington. Washington stars as Reuben James, a Black British former paratrooper, who joined the British Army to escape the poverty of inner city London; Reuben fights in the Falklands War, and upon returning home he finds that society ignores and challenges him while trying to adjust to normal life.