An office comedy about two best friend finance grads who embark on a crazy mission to stop an investment bank from closing a crooked deal involving student loans.
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Title: Bank$tas (2013)
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2 wins & 1 nomination.
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| Credited cast: | |||
| Laura Vandervoort | ... | Jessica | |
| Alan Thicke | ... | Peter Hoss | |
| Joe Dinicol | ... | Isaac | |
| Nicholas Campbell | ... | Howard Ramsey | |
| Michael Seater | ... | Neal | |
| Grace Lynn Kung | ... | Diane | |
| Ron Lea | ... | Jesse Finkelstein | |
| Lara Daans | ... | Francine | |
| Brandon Firla | ... | Pistol Pete | |
| Dan Lett | ... | Dick Wadkins | |
| Chris Farquhar | ... | Marketing Executive | |
| Adam Bradley | ... | Chuck | |
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Diane Flacks | ... | Gale Ramsey |
| Jeremy Cormier | ... | Student#3 | |
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Brian Nettlefold | ... | Evans |
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Life could not be better for best friends Neal and Isaac. They just graduated college and landed their dream job with a top investment bank. But when they discover their boss is planning a crooked student loan deal, their lives are thrown into turmoil. Determined to stop the corrupt plan, they concoct a crazy scheme of sex, drugs and espionage resulting in a wildly chaotic adventure. Written by Main Street Films
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I wonder if the problem of crushing student loan debt is prevalent in Canada as it is here. In any event kudos to the Canadians for Bankstas, a comic film about the efforts of a pair of Canadian students to stop a Gordon Gekko like character from taking the debt over and profiting from foreclosure.
Michael Seater and Joe Dinicol are the students like Charlie Sheen going to work for their own Gekko type, Alan Thicke. Thicke will wreck lives like Gekko wrecked companies because he can. He and his entitled son Brandon Firla play it broadly for comic effect.
Romantic interests for the boys are Laura Vandervoort and Grace Lynn Kung who really stands out. Her scenes trying to seduce Firla as a ruse to get him out of the way are hilarious. Firla himself as one of the entited is the last word in sexual harassment.
Student loan forgiveness as an issue that brought Bernie Sanders considerable support in the last presidential campaign. Bankstas is a moderately funny film about a most relavent topic.