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Rollover (1981) - Playing With the End of the World

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Rollover (1981) - Banker Hubbell Smith (Kris Kristofferson) confronts Maxwell Emery (Hume Cronyn) about the financial movements Emery is making that have the precarious potential to bring the global financial markets to their knees, bankrupting the entire world in the process.

Orion 1981. All rights reserved.

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It isn't the most well known of Alan J. Pakula's films, nor is it one of his "best". Still, Rollover is essentially a cinematic rarity: an economic thriller. I wasn't born during the first oil shock of the 70's, was only a baby during the second oil shock, and only a toddler when this film was released. To be sure it is a product of its time: Reaganonmics wasn't quite part of the zeitgeist while stagflation was part of the national lexicon in the wake of the United States breaking the dollar's convertibility to gold. Still, the screenplay is smart and literate, as evidenced in this scene where Hume Cronyn talks about how & why markets destabilize, and it's truly unsettling as we listen to how he - quite effectively - justifies his actions.
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