The Associate (1996)
April 18, 2022 6:19 PM - Subscribe

Laurel Ayres is a businesswoman trying to make it but unfortunately she works at an 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 want to meet Cutty which is difficult since he doesn't exist.
posted by one4themoment (7 comments total) 1 user marked this as a favorite
 
Like most of my feel good movies I don’t know where it streams... aye matey
posted by one4themoment at 6:28 PM on April 18, 2022


“I’m gonna perpetrate a great big whammy.” 😁

The feel good tag fits. I don’t care that this was reviewed poorly. It scores highly in the audience of my home theater.
posted by Monochrome at 8:08 PM on April 18, 2022 [2 favorites]


Remington Steele for investment bankers? Sounds cute.
posted by praemunire at 6:39 AM on April 19, 2022 [3 favorites]


This is free on Hoopla or for digital rental in most of the usual places.
posted by DirtyOldTown at 8:30 AM on April 19, 2022 [1 favorite]


Yes sounds like a modern Remington Steele remake (not that there's anything wrong with that)
posted by I_Love_Bananas at 9:29 AM on April 19, 2022 [1 favorite]


I looked at some trailers for Remington Steele and I get the comparison. The Associate has less (actually none?) romance. More drag queens. And Diane wiest! And Bebe Neuwirth! And Tim Daly who’ve I’ve had a crush on since my first episode of wings!

I do want to watch Remington Steele now though
posted by one4themoment at 4:40 PM on April 19, 2022 [2 favorites]


I do want to watch Remington Steele now though

This is the correct response, and would be even if one was never a young girl watching the show with her mother and having her romantic tastes profoundly influenced for all time...er....never mind.
posted by praemunire at 6:28 PM on April 19, 2022 [3 favorites]


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