“The Associate” quotes

(1996)

Title The Associate
Year 1996
Director Donald Petrie
Genre Comedy

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Plot – Laurel is a brilliant financial consultant, but a male colleague steals her a promotion for the umpteenth time, so she decides to start her own business. As the only possibility to have success in Wall Street is to have a male business partner, Laurel pretends to work for a certain Robert Cutty and when her important clients ask about him, she says he's busy.

All actors – Whoopi Goldberg, Dianne Wiest, Eli Wallach, Tim Daly, Bebe Neuwirth, Austin Pendleton, Lainie Kazan, George Martin, Kenny Kerr, Lee Wilkof, Helen Hanft, George Morfogen

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- Loan Officer: Because we're the "women's bank", we should go against standard banking practices and give you this very large, unsecured loan because you're the right gender.
- Laurel Ayres: Well... you know, it might send a message.
- Loan Officer: Right: that women don't know how to run a bank.
Jean De Baer - Loan Officer
Whoopi Goldberg - Laurel Ayres
[Tag:ability, bankers, women]
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“- Frank Peterson: You better be premenstrual.
- Laurel Ayres: Baby, if I was premenstrual, you'd be dead.”
Tim Daly - Frank Peterson
Whoopi Goldberg - Laurel Ayres
[Tag:period, threat]
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“- Loan Officer: Do you have any assets?
- Laurel Ayres: I have drive and courage and ambition. And if you'll look at the prospectus, you'll notice that I have a very, very sound business mind too.
- Loan Officer: I was thinking more like stocks, bonds, property.”
Jean De Baer - Loan Officer
Whoopi Goldberg - Laurel Ayres
[Tag:bankers, character, property]

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