The Associate is a 1996 film starring Whoopi Goldberg, Dianne Wiest, Eli Wallach, Timothy Daly, Bebe Neuwirth, Austin Pendleton and Lainie Kazan. Is based on the Jenaro Prieto novel El Socio . Investment banker Laurel Ayres 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 smart and sexist male protege 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 in order to be judged on her own merits. Ayres financial wisdom is joined by the intelligent and computer-savvy secretary Sally Dugan who also was not properly recognized for her talents, and together they are able to become the most successful independent stock brokers in the world while helping a struggling high tech computer company stay afloat.
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| Release date: | October 25, 1996 |
| Directed by: | Donald Petrie |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 114 Minutes |
| Producer: | Frederic Golchan, Patrick Markey, Adam Leipzig |
| Screenplay by: | Jenaro Prieto, Nick Thiel |
| Adapted from: | The Firm |
| Genre: | Comedy |