Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Highly Overrated But Still Good

Admirable film.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

Women's lib would really go for this 1996 film about a woman who loses a promotion to her fellow worker despite her better experience and seniority.Since she will now be a subordinate to this guy, she quits and forms her own investment group. She is aided by a very frumpy Dianne Wiest.When she can't get anywhere due to her sex, she invents a male partner to get her ideas accepted.The film is a funny one and when Whoopi is forced to "produce" this partner, she gets a costume with the white face of a Marlon Brando mixed with a Thomas Jefferson profile and hair-do. That part is really hilarious.Of course, there is more fun ahead when Whoopi is accused of killing this partner and Wiest is accused of being an accessory to murder.With all this, the film is highly predictable but go enjoy it anyway.

Just saw this great movie on HBO! What a hoot! I've actually experienced some of what the movie portrays in real life.....and Whoopi was definitely perfect for the part! Really nice mix of real life issues (even in the modern world of 2006) and humor......and Whoopi, she should have received an Academy Award for her role! I've always liked her, but after seeing her in this role, I have a huge amount of new respect for her work! She comes across as if she really was the character she's portraying. You need to step back to realize she's an actress playing a part. Of course, her supporting cast did a great job too!I didn't read any reviews on this, so I don't know what the critics might have said......I do know that I really can't say enough good things about this movie! You really can't miss, especially if you're female! ;-)

Very mild spoilers....This film is a fun romp through all kinds of business world clichés - which are only clichés because they are all so true! I'm a WG fan all the way and I especially loved her in this film (she had ME believing for a few minutes here and there that she really was a white man!) But Dianne Wiest was absolutely THE BEST in this movie. I just loved her character, and as always DW is likable, funny, sweet-natured, a little timid on the surface, but UNDERNEATH is a hotbed of energy and fire in the belly. And yet always so understated. I especially love her line pointing out that she and Whoopi have no way to get home after their attempt to fake Robert's death in a car explosion - the line delivered so quietly and matter-of-factly: "We came in THAT car." FUN FUN FUN movie! One to watch over again - more than once.

Don't usually like Whoopie starrers, but she really does herself proud in this funny but sadly true account of discrimination against women in the business world (and others - academic, entertainment, etc.). Amusing and clever film, but you have to be a working woman to really appreciate its truth and poetic justice.