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Oct 25, 1996 · The Associate: Directed by Donald Petrie. With Whoopi Goldberg, Dianne Wiest, Eli Wallach, Tim Daly. A comedy about making it on Wall Street. Prejudices are hard to break and Laurel Ayres quickly learns that in order for people to take her seriously she has to work for an older white man or be one.
- (9.2K)
- Comedy
- Donald Petrie
- 1996-10-25
The Associate is a film starring Whoopi Goldberg as a woman who creates a fictional white male partner to succeed in Wall Street. The film is a remake of a French comedy and was released in 1996 to negative reviews.
The Associate. Laurel (Whoopi Goldberg) is an intelligent investment banker struggling to succeed on Wall Street. When an unqualified white man (Tim Daly) receives a promotion, she quits her...
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- Donald Petrie
- PG-13
- Whoopi Goldberg
Oct 25, 1996 · The Associate. Comedy. 114 minutes ‧ PG-13 ‧ 1996. Roger Ebert. October 25, 1996. 3 min read. “The Associate” is an uninspired recycling of the “ Tootsie ” formula, with the fatal error that its Tootsie-figure is offscreen most of the time and not lovable when he’s onscreen.
Laurel (Whoopi Goldberg) is an intelligent investment banker struggling to succeed on Wall Street. When an unqualified white man (Tim Daly) receives a promot...
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A comedy about a black woman who invents a fictional male partner to succeed in Wall Street. She faces challenges and reveals the truth about her identity in the end.
Find out who starred in and worked behind the scenes of the comedy film The Associate, directed by Donald Petrie and written by Jean-Claude Carrière and René Gainville. See the full cast and crew list, including Whoopi Goldberg, Dianne Wiest, Eli Wallach, and Donald Trump.
