Son_of_Mansfield
Whoopi Goldberg feels held back by her gender, so she gets a makeover as a man to jump start her ad agency. A lot of women defend this movie, but it seems like they should be insulted. Goldberg is reduced to getting fashion tips from a drag queen(man), getting inside tips from a mouse(man), and looking like a demented John Adams when she is remade as a white man. The movie would be really empowering if she did it herself, which everyone knows she could. Whoopi is far too talented and independent to be playing such a poorly conceived character. Also, the original story was about how liberating it was to do the things you wanted in a visage that everyone believed, but that ultimately you could be yourself by yourself. All the women power stuff was added unnecessarily, just casting a woman would have gotten the same point across without rubbing the audiences noise in it.
Elswet
While I would like to say that I'm sure the producers of this work had no intention of ripping off that iconic television show, I'm sure any fans of the show will agree with me when I say that it did just that.Without the rip off factor, this work is quite cute. It's empowering to women, and demonstrates how the premise of Remmington Steele's whole premise could actually happen. And you thought it was silly! Bah! Whooopie is awesome in this feature, and really commands the presence of an executive, but just beneath that corporate demeanor, lies the bad-a$$ who beat the snot out of "Ray" in Burglar. In spite of that, I loved it. Though it'll never win even a nomination, it was fun.Whoopie? Work more in FRONT of the camera! I miss you! This rates a 5.8/10 from...the Fiend :.
Buzz (DaytonaBob)
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.
Claudio Carvalho
Laurel Ayres (Whoopi Goldberg) is a very competent financial analyst who is deceived by her colleague Frank (Timothy Daly) in a promotion to VP. She decides to quit her job and open her own investment company. However, being a woman, she feels difficulties to get into this type of business in Wall Street. She decides to pretend she has a male associate in her company, who would be responsible for the advices. Together with her assistant Sally (the lovely Diane Wiest), they pass through funny situations. This pretentiousness comedy recalls the plot of Mike Nichols' `Working Girl', if you consider the storyline of a competent employee who has her own merits credited to another person. The film is not regular, and Laurel Ayres sometimes is bright, but other times she behaves like a stupid. Further, in the present days, it is hard to believe such a prejudice in Wall Street. This DVD has just been released in Brazil. For my surprise, this is a 1996 movie. My vote is six.
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