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The Associate

1996 · 114 min

A breezy, crowd-pleasing comedy of corporate disguise that mixes light satire with warm, earnest wish-fulfillment.

Directed by
Donald Petrie
Genres
Comedy
Tagline
Behind every great man is a woman... Wishing he'd get the hell out of her way.
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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Directed by
Donald Petrie
Genres
Comedy
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Tone
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 1 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • gender
  • class
  • identity
  • ambition
  • deception
Places
  • big city
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
  • ensemble
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror0
Humour6
Realism6
Romance2
Tension4
Darkness3
Complexity4
Emotional weight4

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Genres
comedy
Directed by
Donald Petrie
Written by
Nick Thiel
Starring
Whoopi Goldberg, Dianne Wiest, Eli Wallach, Tim Daly, Bebe Neuwirth, Austin Pendleton, Lainie Kazan, George Martin
Music
Christopher Tyng, Vassal Benford
Cinematography
Alex Nepomniaschy
Runtime
114 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English

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