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Summary: A Fun Light-Hearted Movie about a Woman in a Man's World.
Review: A Fun Light-Hearted Movie about a Woman in a Man's World. That one sentence sums up the Associate, with Whoppi Goldberg playing a woman trying to break the glass ceiling in the world of high-finance.
Whoppi does a good job playing Laurel Ayers, a woman who has been passed over too many times. When she sets out on her own, she can't get clients until she creates a partnership with a fictional male, Mr. Cutty. While she experiences success, it is bittersweet because her fictional male partner is seen as the brains of the organization. In the end, she goes to drastic measures to make the world see that she is the one who deserves the credit for her ideas.
This movie is a lot of fun to watch. It's true, you can watch it many times over, especially if you love the world of finance and enjoyed movies like "Trading Places."
The movie also has a real message, which is the prejudice that prevents women from sometimes getting the credit they deserve. It's been 10 years since this movie was made. One would hope that the business world had changed since then, and it has in some ways. But, some of the painful neglect she suffers in the movie still rings true.
While this is a good fun movie, it is not a masterpiece of film. It's a fun movie to watch if you don't want to think too much and if you like cliche's about the "old-boys club." Some of the plot gets just a little too silly towards the end, as her elaborate ruse unravels. I think they could have given the audience a little more to chew on with a more believable portrayal.
Still, it's worth a watch. Buy it, watch it, enjoy it!
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Summary: Badly acted; not very entertaining
Review: Any one who has the faintest inkling of how Wall St works will find this movie a joke. I can't believe the other reviews giving four or five stars. I was very disappointed with the whole thing. Whoopi seems very uninvolved in her acting. The movie just drags and drags. Many of the so called comic scenes are very contrived.
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Summary: One of my all time favorites
Review: I first saw this movie when I rented it. The following day, I had to get up early for something and I wasn't going to watch a movie, but I decided to anyway. It is interesting to note that I have no idea how I found the movie, but when I started watching it, I couldn't stop. Most people have a favorite movie that they could watch over and over and this happens to be mine. The main topic of the movie can be described as business oriented and I like movies like that, so this helps. Overall, an excellent movie and I recommend purchasing because I like to watch it over and over.
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Summary: Great Movie!
Review: I have seen this movie many times but I never get tired watching it again. Great performance by Whoppi Goldberg. It proves that a woman can also be successful in the financial world and even become "Businessman of the Year" as seen on the film.
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Summary: He Look-a-Like-A-Man!
Review: I must have seen this movie about twenty times or more! Each time I viewed it, I discovered something new in the movie!I loved
when Whoopi finally got a break-through and was given an account to prove her worth as a business woman! Women are still looked down in 2002 in many fields!The White Male is still given every thing over the Black woman and the white woman! Opray was the frist African American woman given close to a billion in revenue, we're cousins by the way Opray and I! No, really!!viewing the movie helped me to make many successful deals without feeling like a helpless female! Anyway Whoopi plays a guy as well as she does a girl! Five stars for you Whoopi!
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Summary: Very Entertaining!
Review: I truly love this movie! I have been trying to get it on DVD eversince I first watched it in March 1997 on my way to the UK. Whoopi Goldberg's acting is convincing but I liked Dianne Wiest's supporting role. A very entertainingly funny plot will keep you laughing most of the time through the whole movie.
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Summary: Another mediocre American remake.
Review: Sorry. But, the only thing remotely funny about this movie is the bizarre make-up job on Whoopie in her transformation to a man. I give credit to Whoopie for trying, but a bad script left her helpless. Dianne Weist is somewhat redeeming as her assistant. On the whole, you're better off renting the 1982 original French version with Michel Serrault... infinitely funnier.
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Summary: Hilariously funny!
Review: This movie gets funnier each time you see it. Whoopi Goldberg is at her best in this movie. Everyone should see this movie at least once. Believe me, you will want to see it again.
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Summary: Most under-rated movie of all time! It's simply the best!
Review: This movie got iffy reviews when it came out, much to my shock and dismay. I didn't see it until it came out on video and was astonished that it had been so under-rated for so long. This is a fantastic, hilarious comedy with a wonderful script of surprises, empowerment, and that really "complete" feeling you get after watching a classic. Whoopi is excellent in this role, and it will make everyone feel great. People who really know what good writing and acting are will love this movie, unlike the one negative reviewer below. He obviously didn't see the same movie we all watched. The plot is tight, the characters ring true, and the ending is perfect and succinct. This is not the run-of-the-mill Hollywood film, which is perhaps why it didn't blow away the box office. If you like rehashed scripts, such as the kind that are created by Tim Robbin's studio executive-role via the movie, "The Player," and the kind of movies that keep teens paying $8 just for "something to do" on a Friday night, then you probably won't like this movie. It is definitely no, "Dude, Where's my car" or "Lethal Weapon 4" etc. It's thoughtful, and it's unlike anything else in Hollywood, as it portrays women in a very positive light, and does not attach their main defining characteristics with sex. This movie does have sex in it, however, and an accurate portrayal of the roles men and women actually occupy in the U.S.A., especially in business. Women who watch it are the best judges of this, since we all live this kind of life and see this kind of thing very frequently. If you want to see an original film, and you're in the video store thinking, "I'm so sick of this and that and this and that, I want something DIFFERENT and interesting," then I'd definitely rent this video. Better yet, buy it. Everyone who I've shown it to now owns it, including my male friends (and boyfriend). Women will love it, and good guys who don't treat women in the way some of the male characters in this movie do, will also love it. It's just plain good.
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Summary: Excellent Movie, Worth Owning
Review: This movie is so funny. It speaks the truth about the problems of women in business, as well as gets you laughing. I have rented it twice, now I want to own it.
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