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The Associate| Director: | Donald Petrie | | Writer: | Nick Thiel | | Director of Photography: | Alex Nepomniaschy | | Editor: | Bonnie Koehler | | Music: | Christopher Tyng | | Production Designer: | Andrew Jackness | | Producers: | Frederic Golchan, Patrick Markey and Adam Leipzig | | Hollywood Pictures; PG-13; 114 minutes | | Release: | 10/96 | | Cast: | Whoopi Goldberg, Dianne Wiest, Tim Daly, Bebe Neuwirth, Eli Wallach and Lainie Kazan |
Another star goes the cross-dressing route and fails to win audiences as Robin Williams did in Mrs. Doubtfire. Fed up with Wall Street's old boy network, Laurel Ayres (Goldberg) quits her job as a financial analyst when an incompetent male colleague gets the promotion she deserves. When she starts her own business but fails to attract clients, Ayres creates a partner, an investment genius with an unparalleled track record and calls him Robert S. Cutty. Business booms and Cutty becomes a legend in financial circles. But Ayres soon runs out of excuses about Cutty's absence from meetings and has no other choice than to don a wig and a latex white face. In what should be the film's funniest moments, Goldberg as a man falls flat, offering nothing more than a few sight gags. Wiest, of course, shines as Ayres's assistant.
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