The Associate (1996)

Directors

Donald Petrie

Cast

Whoopi Goldberg, Dianne Wiest, Eli Wallach, Tim Daly, Bebe Neuwirth, Austin Pendleton, Lainie Kazan, George Martin, Lee Wilkof, Helen Hanft, George Morfogen, Zeljko Ivanek, Miles Chapin, Jean de Baer, Louis Turenne, William Hill, Colleen Camp, Brian Tarantina, Jerry Hardin, John Short, Thomas Wagner, Nicholas Kepros, Peter McRobbie, Daryl Edwards, Allison Janney, Frederick Rolf, Lawrence Gilliard Jr., Lianna Pai, Vincent Laresca, Arthur French, Kathleen McClellan, Robert Levine, John Rothman, Jonathan Freeman, Socorro Santiago, Bernie McInerney, Leon Addison Brown, Sally Jessy Raphael, Baxter Harris, Rex Robbins, Ira Wheeler, Boris McGiver, Donald Trump

The story

Investment banker Laurel Ayres is a smart and single woman trying to make it up the Wall Street corporate ladder, until one day she finds out that she is being passed over for a promotion because of her gender. Unable to face the fact that her less intelligent male protege, Frank Peterson, has now become her boss, she quits and tries to start up her own company only to find out that the male dominated world of Wall Street is not interested in taking an African American woman seriously, and thus is forced to create a fictional white man, Robert S. Cutty (inspired by a bottle of Cutty Sark) to legitimize her talents and make her…

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