The Associate

The Associate is a 1996 film with Whoopi Goldberg and Dianne Wiest. See the storyline, runtime (114 minutes) and complete cast list on 123movies. Laurel Ayres is a businesswoman trying to make it but unfortunately she works at a investment firm where she does all the work but all the senior investors like Frank Peterson grab all the credit. She then leaves and starts her own firm. While trying to find clients Laurel pretends that she has a male partner named Robert Cutty. And when she starts to do well all of her clients wants to meet Cutty which is difficult since he doesn't exist.