Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Gary Oldman | ... | Jürgen Mossack | |
Antonio Banderas | ... | Ramón Fonseca | |
AJ Meijer | ... | Hominid #1 | |
Arsenio Castellanos | ... | Hominid #2 | |
Lucy Morningstar | ... | Hominid #3 | |
Meryl Streep | ... | Ellen Martin | |
James Cromwell | ... | Joe Martin | |
Jeff Michalski | ... | Norm Sidley | |
Jane Morris | ... | Barb Sidley | |
Robert Patrick | ... | Captain Paris | |
Chris McLaughlin | ... | First Mate | |
Jay Paulson | ... | Pastor Conners | |
Melissa Rauch | ... | Melanie | |
Juliet Donenfeld | ... | Thalia | |
Brock Brenner | ... | Kaylen |
When her idyllic vacation takes an unthinkable turn, Ellen Martin (Meryl Streep) begins investigating a fake insurance policy, only to find herself down a rabbit hole of questionable dealings that can be linked to a Panama City law firm and its vested interest in helping the world's wealthiest citizens amass larger fortunes. Founding partners Jürgen Mossack (Gary Oldman) and Ramón Fonseca (Antonio Banderas) are experts in the seductive ways shell companies and offshore accounts help the rich and powerful prosper. They are about to show us that Ellen's predicament only hints at the tax evasion, bribery and other illicit absurdities that the super wealthy indulge in to support the world's corrupt financial system. Zipping through a kaleidoscope of detours in China, Mexico, Africa (via Los Angeles) and the Caribbean en route to 2016's Panama Papers publication - where journalists leaked the secret, encrypted documents of Mossack Fonseca's high-profile patrons - THE LAUNDROMAT's ensemble ... Written by Netflix
If you are like me absolutely not interested in financial companies, rich people and their dodgy ways of making money, but you still want to know about the Panama Papers scandal than The Laundromat is worth a watch. They try to explain it in a funny way, but even then I'm still not getting all the scams. And that's just because I'm an antisocial person that wants to live as far away as possible from people like that. The movie is worth a watch because of the very good cast. Gary Oldman, Antonio Banderas, Meryl Streep for the bigger roles, Matthias Schoenaerts, Sharon Stone, David Schwimmer and others for the smaller parts. It's well filmed and brought, and even if it's very far away from my way of life, and that I still don't understand half of the possible scams, it's entertaining. The world needs more whistle blowers, but what it needs more are competent judges putting all those leaches in prison for a long time, but that's just utopic as the world isn't fair and never will be.