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Release Date: 01 July, 2003 Retail Price: $9.99 OUR Price: $8.99 You SAVE: $1.00! Cast: Complete Cast (6 total) |
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A Fun Light-Hearted Movie about a Woman in a Man's World.
A Fun Light-Hearted Movie about a Woman in a Man's World. That one sentence sums up the Associate, with Whoppi Goldberg playing a woman trying to break the glass ceiling in the world of high-finance.
Whoppi does a good job playing Laurel Ayers, a woman who has been passed over too many times. When she sets out on her own, she can't get clients until she creates a partnership with a fictional male, Mr. Cutty. While she experiences success, it is bittersweet because her fictional male partner is seen as the brains of the organization. In the end, she goes to drastic measures to make the world see that she is the one who deserves the credit for her ideas.
This movie is a lot of fun to watch. It's true, you can watch it many times over, especially if you love the world of finance and enjoyed movies like "Trading Places."
The movie also has a real message, which is the prejudice that prevents women from sometimes getting the credit they deserve. It's been 10 years since this movie was made. One would hope that the business world had changed since then, and it has in some ways. But, some of the painful neglect she suffers in the movie still rings true.
While this is a good fun movie, it is not a masterpiece of film. It's a fun movie to watch if you don't want to think too much and if you like cliche's about the "old-boys club." Some of the plot gets just a little too silly towards the end, as her elaborate ruse unravels. I think they could have given the audience a little more to chew on with a more believable portrayal.
Still, it's worth a watch. Buy it, watch it, enjoy it!
A Woman's Film in a Man's World
This remake of the French film ups the social ante. The original film was about a mousy male who is overlooked. This is about the glass ceiling.
Whoopi works for an investment firm. She gets the job done through hard work. Her associate (Tim "Wings" Daly) gets the job done through the "old boy's network." When he gets Whoopi's promotion, Whoopi quits. She finds in the investment world, that a woman is only as good as the man behind her.
Therefore, Whoopi creates a man to stand behind. This works until one of her client's refused to close a deal until he meets the mysterious Mr. Cutty. So with the help of her drag queen tenant, Whoopi becomes the white Mr. Cutty. And of course, this spins even more out of control. This film goes from social satire to complete farce.
Whoopi gives a tour de force performance and Dianne Wiest plays the quintessential secretary. Even Bebe Neuwirth has a great role as a publicist who will do anything to get
the top client.
This film works on many levels. Most people will enjoy this film for one reason or another.
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