The Bank

A young man fascinated with the workings of the world of banking forms an alliance with an unscrupulous corporate predator in this drama. Jim Doyle (David Wenham) developed an interest in finance while he was a young boy growing up in a small Australian town, and as an adult he and his partners have ...more

Movies about high finance always run the risk of boring the audience with more arcane detail than any lay person can absorb in two hours of screen time. The Bank dispenses with trying to educate, favoring atmosphere and psychology over numbers and theories. Artfully animated parabolas under the opening credits suggest that the theories of Jim Doyle (David Wenham) about predicting the money market will be one part Leonardo DaVinci (Doyle likes to draw and doodle on tablecloths) and one part John ...more