Crypto (2019)

Demoted back to his hometown, a young Wall Street banker is drawn into investigating a tangled web of corruption and fraud in Upstate New York, affecting both his personal life and business career.

Director:

John Stalberg Jr.

Writers:

Carlyle Eubank (screenplay by), David Frigerio (screenplay by)

Stars:

Beau Knapp, Luke Hemsworth, Jill Hennessy

Cast

Credited cast:
Beau Knapp	...	Martin
Luke Hemsworth	...	Caleb
Jill Hennessy	...	Robin
Alexis Bledel	...	Katie
Kurt Russell	...	Martin Sr.
Vincent Kartheiser	...	Ted
Malaya Rivera Drew	...	Penelope
Jeremie Harris	...	Earl
Marsha Dietlein	...	Janice
John D. Hickman	...	Bill
Zac Weinstein	...	Drew
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Cat Alter	...	Amy
Annalé	...	Cindy
Sean Cullen	...	Bernard
Eric Davis	...	Board Member

Storyline

Demoted back to his hometown, a young Wall Street banker is drawn into investigating a tangled web of corruption and fraud in Upstate New York, affecting both his personal life and business career.

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Plot Keywords:

corruption | cryptocurrency | wall street | new york | money laundering | 

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Taglines:

Fear is the Ultimate Currency

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Genres:

Crime | Drama | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for language throughout, some violence, sexuality and drug use

Did You Know?

Trivia

News channel 13 WNYT co anchor Benita Zhan, plays a small role as a waitress, Marcy

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Goofs

The sign on Earl's store says "Van Loan's Discount Beverage" but the newscast late in the film identifies it as "Van Loan's Discount Liquor."

User Reviews

A good drama requiring patience

Martin Duran (Beau Knapp) is an auditor at OmniBank, a prestigious New York bank, who infuriates the bank's president by questioning the accounting practices of a major potential client and so gets demoted to their branch bank in the farming community of Elba, New York, where he grew up. There he not only must contend with the animosity of the townspeople, who view him as an outsider, but he also must try to reconnect with his estranged family--his father (Kurt Russell), a stubborn potato farmer facing foreclosure, and his brother Caleb (Luke Hemsworth), a damaged Iraq War veteran.

In auditing the books of Endelman Gallery, a client of the Omni branch, he notices accounting peculiarities, and with the help of his boyhood friend Earl (Jeremie Harris), now a local store owner who also is knowledgeable about cryptocurrencies and the Dark Web, he begins to suspect that the art gallery is laundering money through Bitcoin transactions.

As Martin delves further into Omni's relationship with the gallery, people he has interviewed start turning up dead He must find out who is behind the crime and alert authorities before the body count rises.

A solid, mostly well-acted drama, although its slow pacing and Knapp's one-note performance will put many viewers to sleep.

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

12 April 2019 (USA)

Also Known As:

Crypto

Filming Locations:

Elba, New York, USA

Box Office

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$20,440

Company Credits

Production Co:

Yale Productions, BondIt Media Capital, Dynasty Pictures (II)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

105 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.66 : 1