The Associate

1996

Action / Comedy

15
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 28% · 18 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 54% · 5K ratings
IMDb Rating 6.2/10 10 9527 9.5K

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Plot summary

Laurel Ayres is a businesswoman trying to make it but unfortunately she works at a investment firm where she does all the work but all the senior investors like Frank Peterson grab all the credit. She then leaves and starts her own firm. While trying to find clients Laurel pretends that she has a male partner named Robert Cutty. And when she starts to do well all of her clients wants to meet Cutty which is difficult since he doesn't exist.

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Whoopi Goldberg as Laurel Ayres
Colleen Camp as Detective Jones
Lainie Kazan as Cindy Mason
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962.58 MB
1280*694
English 2.0
NR
23.976 fps
1 hr 54 min
Seeds 1
1.81 GB
1920*1040
English 2.0
NR
23.976 fps
1 hr 54 min
Seeds 10

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Reviewed by Chase_Witherspoon 6 / 10

Climbing the corporate ladder, Whoopi style

Watchable if nothing else, this Whoopi Goldberg vehicle doesn't reach for the stars, but instead weaves social commentary on the glass ceiling and racial prejudice into the comedy of a business whiz (Goldberg) who invents a fictitious business partner when she finds she can't advance on her own merits, apparently due to her gender and race. But the ruse becomes difficult to manage as various investors demand to meet the elusive "Mr Cutty", and Goldberg resorts to costumes and well-staged theatrics to hide the fact that Cutty doesn't exist.

Reasonable supporting cast features Tim Daly as a sleazy corporate type, ubiquitous to just about every film that depicts 'corporate America', Dianne Wiest as Goldberg's chronically under-appreciated right-hand woman, Eli Wallach as an old-school investor keen to meet the elusive Mr Cutty, and Austin Pendleton as a bookish inventor and CEO on the brink of bankruptcy until Goldberg can restore his standing. Blink and you'll miss Colleen Camp in a very minor role as a detective.

Occasional slapstick and farce, fused with the usual dry-wit for which Goldberg is accustomed, it's a studio picture with all the typical hooks and clichés, nevertheless, very mild and satisfying. And as a footnote, good to see Bebe Neuwirth in a particularly sultry role as an all-too-eager business associate to Wallach; she has a couple of scenes sans most of her wardrobe that are quite revealing.

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