Movies:Exploring financial troubles

Movie: ArbitrageRunning time: 100 minutesGenre: Mystery/suspense/dramaWritten by: Nicholas Jarecki

Saturday, October 13, 2012

Movie: ArbitrageRunning time: 100 minutesGenre: Mystery/suspense/dramaWritten by: Nicholas JareckiCast: Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon, Tim Roth, Brit Marling Directed by: Nicholas JareckiReviewer: Martin BishopARBITRAGE is a taut and alluring suspense thriller about love, loyalty and high finance. Robert Miller, on the eve of his 60th birthday, appears the very portrait of success in American business and family life. But behind the gilded walls of his mansion, Miller is in over his head, desperately trying to complete the sale of his trading empire to a major bank before the depths of his fraud are revealed. Struggling to conceal his duplicity from loyal wife Ellen and brilliant daughter and heir-apparent Brooke, Miller is also balancing an affair with a French art-dealer called Julie. Just as he’s about to unload his troubled empire, an unexpected bloody error forces him to juggle family, business, and crime with the aid of Jimmy Grant (Nate Parker), a face from Miller’s past.