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6.3Laurel 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.
Released: 1996-10-25114 minDir: Donald PetrieComedyBudget: $23.0MBox office: $12.8M
Cast
- Whoopi Goldberg as Laurel Ayres
- Dianne Wiest as Sally Dugan
- Eli Wallach as Donald Fallon
- Tim Daly as Frank Peterson
- Bebe Neuwirth as Camille Scott
- Austin Pendleton as Aesop Franklin
Themes
- career
- fraud
- sexism
- wall street
- broker
- autonomy
- partner
- disguise
- gender disguise
- gender equality
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Ratings
IMDb
6.2/10
9,431 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
28%
- Year
- 1996
- Runtime
- 114 min
- Genres
- Comedy
- Rated
- PG-13
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- LGBTQ-related film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- English language
- Director
- Donald Petrie
- Screenwriter
- Jean-Claude Carrière
- Cast member
- George Martin
- Composer
- Christopher Tyng
- Production company
- Hollywood Pictures
- Narrative location
- New York City
- Filming location
- Long Island
- Duration
- 109
- FilmAffinity ID
- 916714
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- publication date
- 1997-04-17
- title
- The Associate
- distributed by
- Netflix
- assessment
- Bechdel test
- set during recurring event
- Christmas and holiday season
- box office
- 12844057
- review score
- 28%
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