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Title: Rollover (1981)
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| Jane Fonda | ... | Lee Winters | |
| Kris Kristofferson | ... | Hubbell Smith | |
| Hume Cronyn | ... | Maxwell Emery | |
| Josef Sommer | ... | Roy Lefcourt | |
| Bob Gunton | ... | Sal Naftari | |
| Macon McCalman | ... | Jerry Fewster | |
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Ron Frazier | ... | Gil Hovey |
| Jodi Long | ... | Betsy Okamoto | |
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Crocker Nevin | ... | Warner Ackerman |
| Marvin Chatinover | ... | Henry Lipscomb | |
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Ira Wheeler | ... | Mr. Whitelaw (as Ira B. Wheeler) |
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Paul Hecht | ... | Khalid |
| Norman Snow | ... | Hishan | |
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Nelly Hoyos | ... | Lee Winter's Maid |
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Sally Sockwell | ... | Mrs. Fewster |
Lee Winters, the go-getting widow of a murdered petrochemical company chairman, and Hubbell Smith, a professional sent by the First New York Bank chairman Maxwell Emery to investigate the liquidity of one of their banks, fall for each other and team up to get to the bottom of things. Their investigations lead them to the discovery of an international financial scheme involving her husband's company and the Arab states that could lead to global economic collapse and render U.S. dollar worthless.
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It's impossible not to giggle every time Kristofferson opens his mouth in this movie. It's not like he's playing a cowboy turned banker - rather, he's playing a stereotypical New York banker and it's just ridiculous. It's like casting Miley Cyrus as a nun or Justin Bieber as a nuclear scientist.
Jane Fonda looks stiff and bored. Their romance is also hilarious.
The movie filled with clichés: the omniscient assassin, the busy trading floor, the tape Fonda finds at just the right time, etc.
Overall, it's a very slow-moving, dull drama. The first two thirds of the movie are irrelevant. "The Arabs pull out their money out" is a single event at the end, following by a couple minutes of "the sky is falling" and that's it. The first 90 minutes of all the corporate maneuvering are a completely different plot that turns out to be irrelevant.
The scenario, by the way, is silly. So what if the Arabs withdraw all their cash? Where would they put it? In a different bank in a different country. And what would that bank do with it? Lend it out. Who would borrow? US banks needing liquidity. So the money would move around but the idea that the entire global financial system would collapse is ridiculous.
And of course, if it did collapse, the Arabs would have no one to buy their oil, so they zero motivation to do this. This is also not covered in the movie.
Meh...it's a couple hours to put on the TV in your garage while you're working or something but I wouldn't sit down with your special someone for an evening of excitement.
BTW, "Tarriq Afifi" - you're completely wrong. I'm offended by your comments that this movie is racist. It's not. It's about Arabs pulling their money out of US banks. Racism would be saying "all Arabs are (some negative stereotype)" not saying "in 1981, Arabs had a lot of financial power". There was no Arab bashing (or bashing of Islam - the asr prayer is shown accurately).