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 Released: 1996
In this comedy, a woman discovers that it's impossible to get ahead in business without a man to guide her so she invents one. Laurel (Whoopi Goldberg) is an expert financial analyst with a top Wall Street brokerage; however, she keeps getting passed over for raises and promotions, and she's convinced that no one at her firm takes her seriously because she's a black woman. Frustrated, Laurel and her loyal assistant Sally (Dianne Wiest) open a new firm, but Laurel discovers that her fears were based firmly in reality: male clients don't want to take financial advice from women, especially women of color. So Laurel invents a white man, Robert S. Cutty, to be the firm's top adviser. Speaking on Cutty's behalf, Laurel passes along the fictional man's advice, which her new clients find to be quite sound, and when they stop by to see him, he always manages to be out of the office (and why wouldn't a man so successful be busy?). The ruse seems to work, and soon Laurel's business is going great guns, but an increasingly large number of her clients want to see Cutty face to face, which won't be easy to pull off; but, with the help of a drag queen, Laurel tries to remake herself into Cutty for a night in order to keep her firm afloat. The Associate was based on a novel by Italian author Jenaro Prieto. Mark Deming
Whoopi Goldberg - Laurel
Dianne Wiest - Sally
Eli Wallach - Fallon
Tim Daly - Frank
Bebe Neuwirth - Camille
George Morfogen - Plaza Manager
Lee Wilkof - Bissel
Ira Wheeler - Investor At 21 Club
Ginny Yang - Funeral Reporter
Donald Trump - Himself
Brian Tarantina - Eddie
Katherine Wallach - reporter
Louis Turenne - Peabody Club Concierge
Thomas Wagner - Harley's Associate
John Short - Harley's Associate
Alberto Alejandrino - Maître D' At Peabody Club
Larry Gilliard, Jr. - Plaza Bellhop Thomas
Kathleen McClellan - Frank's Girlfriend
Roy Gerson Orchestra - Fallon Ball Band
Judith Calder - Audience Member
Jonathan Freeman - Hockey Game Executive
Robert Levin - Door Slam Executive
Ted Brunetti - Fallon's Messenger
Boris McGiver - Plaza Reporter
Craig Braun - Disgruntled Investor
Johnny Miller - Himself
Allison Janney - Sandy
William Hill - Detective Templeton
Corrine Manning - Fallon Ball Band
Jerry Hardin - Harley Mason
Helen Hanft - Mrs. Cupchick
Darryl Edwards - executive At Strip Club
Baxter Harris - Disgruntled Investor
Zeljko Ivanek - SEC Agent Thompkins
Billy Jaye - Plaza Reporter
Leon Addison Brown - reporter
Joel Blake - Poker Palyer
Jean de Baer - loan officer
Colleen Camp - Detective Jones
Miles Chapin - Harry
Socorro Santiago - Syntonex Worker
Rex Robbins - Investor At 21 Club
Sally Jesse Raphael - Herself
Austin Pendleton - Aesop
Frederick Rolf - Carl Bode
John Rothman - Jogging Track Executive
Lainie Kazan - Cindy Mason
Vincent Laresca - Plaza Men's Room Attendant
Ken Kerr - Charlie
Liana Pai - Plaza Concierge Charlotte
Peter McRobbie - Executive At Strip Club
George Martin - Manchester
Bernie McInerney - Cilent At Cutty/Ayres
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