The Associate Movie Review 1996

Whoopi drags a 20-minute premise over almost two hours when she invents an elderly, white, male business partner to give her fledgling financial consulting business some prestige. After having all her moneymaking ideas appropriated by male colleagues, Laurel Ayres (Goldberg) starts her own business, only to find that no one wants to hire her. She creates the genius and the money comes rolling in. Everyone clamors to meet the mystery man, so she goes undercover as the elusive Robert S. Cutty. The sight of Goldberg in old white guy garb and makeup is jarring, and the payoff doesn't merit the overlong build up. Based on the French film "L'Associate" and the Jenaro Prieto novel "El Socio."

Distribution

Buena Vista Home Entertainment, 500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91521-1120, Toll-free: 800-723-4763, URL: http://www.bvhe.com

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 113 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Corporate Shenanigans, Special FX Extravaganzas: Make-Up, Stolen from France, Wonder Women, Not-So-True Identity

Screenplay

Nick Thiel

Cast

Whoopi Goldberg, Timothy Daly, Bebe Neuwirth, Dianne Wiest, Eli Wallach

Cinematography

Alex Nepomniaschy

Director

Donald Petrie

Music

Christopher Tyng

Producer

Frederic Golchan, Patrick Markey, Adam Leipzip, Interscope Comm., Polygram Filmed Entertainment, Buena Vista