The Associate

The Associate

6.3IMDb Score
Released:1996-10-25
Genre:Comedy
Duration:114 min
Director:Donald Petrie
Actors:Whoopi Goldberg, Dianne Wiest, Eli Wallach, Tim Daly, Bebe Neuwirth
Production:Interscope Communications, Hollywood Pictures, PolyGram Filmed Entertainment

Overview:

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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