The Associate
by Donald Petrie
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Actor: Bebe Neuwirth, Dianne Wiest, Eli Wallach, Tim Daly, Whoopi GoldbergDirector: Donald Petrie
Producer: Adam Leipzig
Producer: David Madden
Producer: Frederic Golchan
Writer: Jean-Claude Carri?re
Writer: Jenaro Prieto
Writer: Nick Thiel
Writer: Ren? Gainville
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Letterbox, 1.85:1
Running Time: 114 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1999-07-20
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Walt Disney Video
Movie Reviews of The Associate
Movie Review: I'd rather not associate with movies like this, thank you...
Summary: 1 Stars
The Associate (1996) Whoopi Goldberg, at the time the hardest working woman in show business, pops up in what must have been her 19th movie that year. Unfortunately, it is a criminally overlong comedy that beats its one joke to death early on and has nowhere else to go. Whoopi plays an up-and-coming business financier who keeps running into a brick wall because she is a woman. Undaunted, she sets up her own business, but finds the same trouble. So, in desperation, she invents a non-existent male partner, and soon business is booming. Eventually, Whoopi has to disguise herself as this guy, an old white man, in what was supposed to be the film's big conceit. But this sequence only lasts a few minutes, and that turns out to be good, because Whoopi looks like she's wearing a particularly cheap Halloween mask for a disguise. After the rather convincing getup Robin Williams wore in Mrs. Doubtfire, this thing just looks silly. So, after the biggest set piece in the film fizzles, it somehow manages to drag out for another forty minutes (!), ending up with an astonishing two hour running time. Any goodwill I still had towards this film drained away long before the last credit rolled up the screen. Skip it. Also with Dianne Wiest (The Birdcage) and Eli Wallach (The Magnificent Seven).
Summary of The Associate
Whoopi Goldberg (SISTER ACT I & II, EDDIE) handles business her own way in this outrageous comedy hit! Whoopi plays a fast-track executive who starts her own company after a back-stabbing co-worker (Tim Daly, TV's WINGS) nabs her promotion. But when she's locked out of the stuffy corporate world, she invents a dazzling male business partner to sell her ideas! Her wacky plan soon spins wildly out of control, however, when her bogus "associate" becomes Wall Street's hottest financial whiz -- and Whoopi herself must impersonate him! With Dianne Wiest (THE BIRDCAGE) in a hilarious supporting cast, THE ASSOCIATE is a comedy treat you're sure to love!Comedy DVD Video
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