Who is Mr. Cutty?
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Who is Mr. Cutty? |
| Original title | The Associate |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1996 |
| length | 109 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Donald Petrie |
| script | Nick Thiel |
| production |
Frederic Golchan Adam Leipzig Patrick Markey |
| music |
Vassal Benford Christopher Tyng |
| camera | Alex Nepomniaschy |
| cut | Bonnie Koehler |
| occupation | |
| |
Who is Mr. Cutty? is a 1996 American comedy film directed by Donald Petrie .
action
The African American Laurel Ayres lives in New York and works in the financial industry. When her colleague Frank Peterson receives a promotion that Laurel is actually entitled to, she quits and goes into business for herself. As a woman, and as a black one at that, she has a hard time soliciting clients and soon falls back on a white lie: Inspired by a bottle of the whiskey brand Cutty Sark , she invents the white Robert S. Cutty and claims that she is on his behalf, and he is the one with the brilliant ideas. She has achieved great success with this. Robert Cutty is on everyone's lips and in greater demand than anyone before. Laurel, the real genius, becomes a minor matter and she decides to make Cutty disappear again. When she fakes his death, she is suddenly arrested for murder.
Frank, who has figured out Laurel's game in the meantime, makes use of Cutty himself by swearing that Cutty would live and now work with him. As at the beginning, Frank steals Laurel's successful business idea and earns recognition. In addition, Laurel's license is revoked; she is no longer allowed to work and resigned. The Robert Cutty project goes into business for himself and Laurel can only watch helplessly. When a child is attached to Cutty and he is to be accepted into a so far all-male club, Laurel decides to let the hoax blow up.
Laurel slips into the role of Robert Cutty for the last time when Cutty is awarded the businessman of the year award and he is also to be accepted into the Peabody Club. She accepts the award and - still in the disguise of a man - affords herself a kiss with Frank Peterson before clarifying the situation.
Weeks later, Laurel and her assistant Sally have teamed up as partners and are successfully running their own company. Frank Peterson tries in vain to side with the winners. He is applying to Ayres Investments as a caring employee who has changed a lot. Sally Dugan declines his application politely, but with great satisfaction. The camera image freezes on her satisfied face.
Reviews
The Berliner Zeitung wrote that the film was tailored to Whoopi Goldberg.
The lexicon of international films judged: “Overdrawn comedy that neither exhausts its satirical approaches nor the comic potential. It is only convincing where it observes the processes that lead to the public establishment of the fictional character. "
James Berardinelli wrote on ReelViews that the film looked like a "half-hearted copy of Tootsie ".
Peter Stack wrote in the San Francisco Chronicle on April 18, 1997 that the comedy lived on the supporting characters. He particularly praised the portrayal of Dianne Wiest.
backgrounds
The comedy was shot in New York . The gross profit in the US theaters was about 12.8 million US dollars. The transformation from Whoopi Goldberg to Cutty took around ten hours each time. Donald Trump made a brief cameo .
See also
Web links
- Who is Mr. Cutty? in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Who is Mr. Cutty? at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Who is Mr. Cutty? in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ↑ BZ from April 16, 1997 ( Memento from June 27, 2001 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Who is Mr. Cutty? In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ^ Criticism on ReelViews
- ^ SFC of April 18, 1997
- ↑ locations
- ↑ Box Office / business