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www.eonline.com - : Director Petrie and screenwriter Nick Thiel probably consider themselves feminists. After all, their movie is about a woman executive (Goldberg) struggling to achieve equality in the white male world of Wall Street. Yet rather than create a character who triumphs on the quality of her work, the filmmakers reduce her to a lying and scheming underdog. Though this stereotypical comedy is designed to feed off women's anger, the movie's message is, ''Play with the big boys, ladies, and you better play dirty.'' Gives a whole new meaning to the term selling short. more...
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www.boxoffice.com - : Laurel (Whoopi Goldberg) and Frank (''Denise Calls Up's'' Tim Daly) are two of the best financial analysts in their company. Laurel, the senior of the two, is next in line for a promotion. When her ambitious partner gets the job instead because he's the right gender, however, she starts her own business. No one pays her the time of day, though, until biz whiz Robert S. Cutty comes aboard; the catch is, he's not real, having been invented by Laurel. Now, with the help of her secretary (Dianne Wiest), Laurel must literally become the man if she wants to keep her clients and keep out of jail. (Oscar winning prosthetic makeup artist Greg Cannom is the person responsible for Goldberg's transformation, and for once it works.) more...
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