The story of Nick Leeson (Ewan McGregor), an ambitious investment broker who singlehandedly bankrupted one of the oldest and most important banks in Britain.
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Title: Rogue Trader (1999)
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Cast
| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Cristian Solimeno | ... | Steve (as Christian Solimeno) | |
| Ewan McGregor | ... | Nick Leeson | |
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Lorna Pegler | ... | Girlfriend in Pub |
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David Fahm | ... | Boyfriend in Pub |
| Tim McInnerny | ... | Tony Hawes | |
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Cecil Chang | ... | Old Custodian |
| Michelle Lee | ... | Susi (as Sarah Liew) | |
| Anna Friel | ... | Lisa Leeson | |
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Michael Garner | ... | Alec Sims |
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Sharon Duce | ... | Patsy Sims |
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Karen Lim | ... | Singapore Letting Agent |
| Pip Torrens | ... | Simon Jones | |
| Tom Wu | ... | George Seow | |
| Daniel York | ... | Henry Tan | |
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Irene Ng | ... | Bonnie Lee |
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Ambitious, wide-eyed boy Nick Leeson (Ewan McGregor) is determined to rise in the world and be more than a simple bank clerk. When his employers, Barings Bank, offer him the opportunity to go to Jakarta, Indonesia to sort out a problem that nobody else wants, he seizes the opportunity with both hands. In Jakarta, he meets and marries Lisa (Anna Friel), and together they go to Singapore when the bank offers him the job of setting up their future options trading operation. To save money, the bank allows Nick to operate the floor trading and the back office facilities, and force him to employ cheap, unskilled staff. His first year of trading is a big success, and he makes large profits for the bank, even though he has illegally broken trading rules and secretly covered up losses. Given more freedom, even more money, and continuing unchecked, Nick starts to make losses, and again attempts to trade out of them, but this time he comes unstuck as his illegal trading generates even bigger ... Written by Mark Smith <msmith@osi.co.uk>
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25 June 1999 (UK) See more »Also Known As:
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$12,800,000 (estimated)Company Credits
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[in a cafe with his newly hired team]
Nick Leeson: A futures contract is an agreement to buy or sell a specified amount of a commodity at a specified price at a future date.
[no one responds]
Nick Leeson: All right, um... it's like if I agree to sell you this cup of cappuccino, which I don't yet own, at 45 cents a month from now, if I can buy the cappuccino at say, 43 cents, I make a profit. If the price goes the other way, I have to pay more ...
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Written by Berry Gordy (as Berry Gordy Jr), Janie Bradford
Performed by Barrett Strong
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Nick Leeson was reported to have taken a share of the seven million pounds sterling that this movie earned worldwide. See more »Goofs
When Nick faxes the forged documents to the auditor, the header on the fax is dated February 5, 1995. A few days later, a devastating earthquake rocks Kobe, Japan. The Kobe earthquake actually happened a few weeks earlier, on 17 January 1995. See more »Quotes
Nick Leeson: [voiceover] My team were young, they were hungry, and they didn't have a clue.[in a cafe with his newly hired team]
Nick Leeson: A futures contract is an agreement to buy or sell a specified amount of a commodity at a specified price at a future date.
[no one responds]
Nick Leeson: All right, um... it's like if I agree to sell you this cup of cappuccino, which I don't yet own, at 45 cents a month from now, if I can buy the cappuccino at say, 43 cents, I make a profit. If the price goes the other way, I have to pay more ...
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Money (That's What I Want)Written by Berry Gordy (as Berry Gordy Jr), Janie Bradford
Performed by Barrett Strong
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The film isn't bad, and if you at all interested in the case but know nothing about city trading then see it, if you do (unlike me) i'm sure you will be able to pick holes in it. The one thing that you are left at the end, is the injustice for all the blame to land on his shoulders, he was daft, but there were others. The sets are very good, dodgy boom mike holding, and very dodgy lines from Anna Friel, but she goes topless and so can be forgiven!