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The Solid Gold Cadillac (1956)

07 May

99m; U.S.

Director: Richard Quine

Cast: Judy Holliday, John Williams and Paul Douglas

Synopsis (IMDB): Laura Partridge is a very enthusiastic small stockholder of 10 shares in International Projects, a large corporation based in New York. She attends her first stockholder meeting ready to question the board of directors from their salaries to their operations. These are not the questions which the board expected to be asked of them, especially since they are all crooked, except for Edward McKeever, the current CEO who has resigned in order to take an advisory position at the Pentagon. Following the meeting, he bumps into Laura and offers to drive her home. On the way there, Laura displays her enthusiasm for being a stockholder, as a result, Edward takes a liking to her. With Edward in Washington, John Blessington and Clifford Snell establish their hold on International Projects – They see greater riches now that Edward has influence with the US senate, especially with the awarding of federal contracts.

 
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Posted by on May 7, 2012 in Comedy, Finance, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing, Romance, White Collar

 

Risk/Reward (2003)

26 Apr

88m;

Director: Elizabeth Holder, Xan Parker

Cast: Umber Ahmad, Maria Bartiromo and Roslyn Dickerson 

Synopsis (IMDB): While there have been many movies about Wall Street, there has been little attention given to the specific challenges and stresses of the high-ranking women who work there. Risk/Reward is an insider’s view of the demands and sacrifices that working mothers have in a typically high-powered, male- dominated industry. This film was selected for the 2003 Tribeca, Hot Docs and Full Frame Film Festivals (among others) and will air on the Oxygen network.

 
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Posted by on April 26, 2012 in Documentary, Finance, Women

 

Rick (2003)

26 Apr

100m; U.S.

Director: Curtiss Clayton

Cast:  Bill Pullman, Aaron Stanford and Agnes Bruckner

Synopsis (IMDB): “Rigoletto” retold at Christmas time in Manhattan’s corporate world. Rick, an executive at Image, is a jerk to a woman applying for a job. That evening, he’s out for drinks with his much younger boss, Duke, and the same women is their waitress. Rick’s continued rudeness leads to her getting fired. She puts a curse on him. A potential rift with Duke quickly surfaces; Rick is approached by the hail-fellow Buck, who runs His Own Company, offering to rid Rick of Duke. At dinner later that night, Rick and Duke’s paths cross again; this time Rick is with his stunning and beloved daughter, Eve, a student who has a secret relationship with Duke. All paths lead to the office holiday party.

 
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Posted by on April 26, 2012 in Comedy, Drama, Finance, White Collar

 

The Rise of Big Business (1969)

26 Apr

27m; U.S.

Director: Encyclopedia Brittanica Educational Corporation

Synopsis: A portrait of the rise of industrial tycoons proposes that, after the Civil War, a combination of economic conditions and the efforts of various individuals produced the large business organizations. Shows the impact of the new economic structure on the lives of workers.

 
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Posted by on April 26, 2012 in Documentary, Finance, Industrial/Mine/Manufacturing, Labor History

 

Let’s Make MONEY (2008)

20 Apr

110m; Austria

Director: Erwin Wagenhofer

Synopsis: “Follow the money” is a mantra in both crime and business, perhaps coincidentally and perhaps not. For director Erwin Wagenhofer, whose 2005 documentary sensation WE FEED THE WORLD traced the global path of food from raw materiel to table, it was perhaps inevitable that his follow-up would be the visual tone poem to commerce, LET’S MAKE MONEY. From Indian slums to Hong Kong boardrooms, the Spanish real estate bubble to the World Bank, Wagenhofer is there to juxtapose captains of industry-“there’s a famous saying that the best time to buy is when there’s blood on the streets,” says one-with those actual streets, where laborers work in primitive conditions and billboards offer goods and services they can’t possibly afford.

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Documentary, Finance, Global Economy

 

Mad Money (2008)

20 Apr

104m; U.S.

Director: Callie Khouri

Cast: Diane Keaton, Queen Latifah and Katie Holmes

Synopsis: Three female employees of the Federal Reserve plot to steal money that is about to be destroyed.

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Comedy, Crime-Action, Finance, Legal System, Public Sector, Women

 

No Contract, No Cookies: The Stella D’Oro Strike (2010)

20 Apr

39m; U.S.

Director: Jon Alpert, Matthew O’Neill

Synopsis (IMDB): Follows the struggle of 138 mostly immigrant workers who strike to save their jobs at a famous bakery in the Bronx when a private equity firm buys the bakery and demands wage cuts of up to 30%.

Contact: http://www.hbo.com/documentaries/no-contract-no-cookies-the-stella-doro-strike/index.html#/documentaries/no-contract-no-cookies-the-stella-doro-strike/synopsis.html

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Documentary, Finance, Immigrants/Immigration, Organizing, Service Workers, Strikes-Strikebreaking-Lockouts

 

Northern Lights (1978)

20 Apr

95m; U.S.

Director: John Hanson, Rob Nilsson

Cast: Robert Behling, Susan Lynch and Joe Spano

Synopsis: Northern Lights tells the story of North Dakota farmers who rebel against the economic tyranny of the railroads, grain dealers, and bankers by working for the election of Nonpartisan League candidates in 1916. (from http://jetson.unl.edu/cocoon/encyclopedia/doc/egp.fil.051)

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in 2026 Shortlist, Drama, Farm & Food, Finance, Labor History, Organizing, Politics

 

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Other People’s Money (1991)

20 Apr

103m; U.S.

Director: Norman Jewison

Cast: Danny DeVito, Gregory Peck and Penelope Ann Miller

Synopsis: A corporate raider threatens a hostile take-over of a “mom and pop” company. The patriarch of the company enlists the help of his wife’s daughter, who is a lawyer, to try and protect the company. The raider is enamoured of her, and enjoys the thrust and parry of legal manoeuvring as he tries to win her heart.

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Comedy, Finance, Romance, White Collar

 

Plunder: The Crime of our Time (2009)

20 Apr

100m; U.S.

Director: Danny Schechter

Synopsis: A hard-hitting investigative film that explores how the financial crisis was built on a foundation of criminal activity uncovering the connection between the collapse of the housing market and the economic catastrophe that followed.

Contact: http://plunderthecrimeofourtime.com/contact.htm

 
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Posted by on April 20, 2012 in Documentary, Finance

 

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