Product Overview
The Associate DVD 1996 A csendestárs / Directed by Donald Petrie / Starring: Whoopi Goldberg, Dianne Wiest, Eli Wallach
UPC 5999881067477 / 5999016344275 / IPH4082
REGION 2 PAL DVD
MADE IN Germany
AUDIO: English 5.1, Hungarian 2.0
SUBTITLES: English
Total Runtime: 109 minutes
English Summary:
Investment banker Laurel Ayres (Whoopi Goldberg) is a smart and single woman trying to make it up the Wall Street corporate ladder, until one day she finds out that she is passed over for a promotion because she is a woman. Unable to face the fact that her less intelligent male protege, Frank Peterson (Tim Daly), has now become her boss, she quits and tries to start up her own company only to find out that the male dominated world of Wall Street is not interested in taking an African American woman seriously, and thus is forced to create a fictional white man, Robert S. Cutty (inspired by a bottle of Cutty Sark) to legitimate her talents and make her professionally relevant in said world. Ayres does extensive research into the cultural and performative codes of the culture she seeks to impersonate. Ayres' financial wisdom is joined by the intelligent and computer-savvy secretary Sally Dugan (Dianne Wiest), who also was not properly recognized for her talents. Together they are able to become the most successful independent stockbrokers in the world while helping a struggling high-tech computer company stay afloat.
Hungarian Summary:
Laurel Ayres a Wall Street legtehetségesebb befektetési tanácsadója, de munkájáért mégis mindig másokat ér a dicséret. Amikor rájön, hogy egyetlen hibája, hogy nőnek született, elhatározza: változtat ezen! Csakhogy műtét helyett ő egy aprólékosan megalkotott és fantáziadús kis hazugsággal él. Kitalálja magának az ideális üzleti partner, Robert S. Cutty figuráját, akinek segítségével végre megnyílnak előtte a legnagyobbak tárgyalótermei. Ráadásul Cutty tanácsa komoly vagyont szerez egyik kliensének, így a "legendás tőzsdecápa" egy csapásra a New York-i üzleti világ középpontjába kerül. Mindenki rá kíváncsi, vele akar üzletet kötni, ezért Laurel kénytelen életre kelteni teremtményét, méghozzá úgy, hogy ő maga bújik Cutty bőrébe. Ilyet pedig még a Wall Street sem látott!
Cast / Szereplők:
- Whoopi Goldberg as Laurel Ayres / Mr. Robert S. Cutty
- Dianne Wiest as Sally Dugan
- Eli Wallach as Donald Fallon
- Tim Daly as Frank Peterson
- Bebe Neuwirth as Camille Scott
- Austin Pendleton as Aesop Franklin
- Lainie Kazan as Cindy Mason
- George N. Martin as Walter Manchester
- Kenny Kerr as Charlie
- Lee Wilkof as Bissel
- Željko Ivanek as SEC Agent Tompkins
- Colleen Camp Wilson as Detective Jones
- Jerry Hardin as Harley Mason
- Allison Janney as Sandy
- Larry Gilliard Jr. as Thomas
- Vincent Laresca as José
- Jonathan Freeman as Hockey game executive
- John Rothman as Jogging track executive
- Johnny Miller as himself
- Sally Jessy Raphael as herself
- Donald Trump as himself
| Directed by | Donald Petrie |
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| Screenplay by | Nick Thiel |
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| Music by | Christopher Tyng |
| Cinematography | Alex Nepomniaschy |
| Edited by | Bonnie Koehler |
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| Distributed by | Buena Vista Pictures (North America) PolyGram Filmed Entertainment (international) |
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109 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
