The Associate (1996)
5/10
COULD have been great; ended up below average
12 February 2005
I will never understand the Hollywood writers who can't get around public disclosure/exposure.

From the second the movie started I knew how it was going to end. NO surprises and I can only wonder when they will stop doing this.

How many movies have you ever seen where the person decides to either "COME CLEAN" and tell the truth in front of the entire world or is exposed in front of the entire world.

At what point does it stop? I can't even think of the last time a movie that did this did well. SO WHY KEEP DOING IT????

There was a great premise to the movie about women and the glass ceiling, but instead it turned into an idiotic movie. WHO didn't know the second Whoopi's character said Cutty died on the boat that everyone would survive? Who didn't think that no one in real life with that kind of smarts would do something that stupid?

Then the idiotic attempt with the car wreck. It just kept getting stupider and stupider.

Then who didn't know she was going to expose who she really was at the dinner? ANYONE? AND then that she was going to get an ovation from the people outside? No wonder movies like this keep failing. NO ORIGINALITY. NONE! They could have made it funnier and more believable and still gotten away from that idiotic PUBLIC EXPOSURE crud. AND still made a great point.

But they didn't and they still keep doing that idiocy. You see it on TV shows every darned week and movies to this day do it.

DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMB. Too bad they had idiot formula writers. Or did they even have writers? Maybe just something downloaded from the internet.

Who knows? Such a good premise too.
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