
Taking Care of Business(1990)
An uptight advertising exec has his entire life in a filofax organizer which mistakenly ends up in the hands of a friendly convict who poses as him.


“Behind every great man is a woman... Wishing he'd get the hell out of her way.”
Laurel 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.

Whoopi Goldberg
Laurel Ayres

Dianne Wiest
Sally Dugan

Eli Wallach
Donald Fallon

Tim Daly
Frank Peterson

Bebe Neuwirth
Camille Scott

Austin Pendleton
Aesop Franklin

Lainie Kazan
Cindy Mason

George Martin
Walter Manchester
Kenny Kerr
Charlie

Lee Wilkof
Bissel
The Associate is a comedy film released in 1996 exploring themes of career, fraud, sexism, wall street, broker, autonomy. Directed by Donald Petrie, it stars Whoopi Goldberg, Dianne Wiest, Eli Wallach. Laurel 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.
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