The Associate

After she's passed over for a promotion in favor of a less qualified male colleague, Wall Street analyst Laurel Ayres (Whoopi Goldberg) quits to form her own business, but finds no clients due to her gender. Laurel's solution is to create a fictitious male partner, but what can she do when she must produce her "associate" in the flesh? Gender-bending business world satire, based on a French film, also stars Dianne Wiest, Tim Daly, Eli Wallach. 114 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: English; theatrical trailer.