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Absolutely brilliant

The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

A Wall Street drama with mainly women in the lead roles. It isn't that unique perspective alone makes this an interesting movie. The story is actually very good too. It's about a Silicon Valley tech IPO and some insider manipulation and SEC investigation all come together. You need to concentrate a bit. This is a more complicated story than "Wall Street" or "Wall Street 2". Good guys and bad guys are not so black and white either. So it is more realistic. Anna Gunn - it's hard to picture her out of Breaking Bad does a convincing portrayal of an investment banker who puts together this IPO. Her assistant could have been played by a more famous and slightly prettier actress. James Purefoy is the love interest.Worth watching.

Of course the writers of those two movies would sue for slander. Given the amount of money spent on production the amateurishness and downright incompetence of everyone associated with this movie is mind boggling. The idea seems to be that women can be as greedy, power driven and corrupt as men ... a shocking proposition. The end.

Anna Gunn, who played Walt's wife on Breaking Bad, stars in "Equity," a 2016 film. Directed by Meera Menon, it was written by Sarah Megan Thomas, Alysia Reiner, and Amy Fox. The film also features both Thomas and Reiner, as well as Craig Bierko and James Purefoy.The title has a dual meaning: It's about Wall Street, and it's about women in what used to be man's world. Gunn is Naomi Bishop, an investment banker brought into her current firm to be a "rainmaker." It hasn't been going great for her since her last initial public offering didn't go very well. Her job is to bring private companies public by selling to institutional investors at a good price, and those investors sell the company on the stock market.Naomi has an excellent prospect to bring public, a company called Cachet, which deals in keeping information private. And the waters are shark-filled. First, there is her ambitious, pregnant assistant Erin (Thomas), Naomi's broker boyfriend, Michael (Purefoy), and an old friend who is now a prosecutor looking into insider trading (Reiner). On top of all of it, the owner of Cachet doesn't like her and prefers working with Erin. Before she knows it, Naomi is on the defensive.The way these IPOs work when there is chicanery involved is the following: Someone gets some negative insider info and gives it to the press, driving the price way down before the offering goes to the public. After the offering goes on the stock market at, say $13 less than was promised, all these people buy it. Then whomever gave them the info retracts her statement. The price goes up. The buyers clean up. I guess the moral of this story is that women are as driven and as underhanded and as untrustworthy as men are in certain businesses. You can't trust anyone, your friends most of all.The acting was good. For me the script was underdeveloped. It took us into the lives of three women but didn't go quite far enough for me. This situation was presented in a simplistic manner, but one certainly did feel the pressure the main character was under. No such thing as a free lunch.

This fair-to-middlin' movie might have been kinda fun, except for a world view of both law enforcement and the finance industry.I was watching along, when suddenly there was a scene in which the AUSA walks in on an investigatory who's been casually recording all of the conversations of the heroine's boyfriend - without a warrant and without even being the target of an investigation. Now, I know that thanks to Edward Snowden, the whole world believes the NSA listens to all conversations. But the NSA programs in fact involve the collection of metadata, i.e., the equivalent of telephone numbers. To tap an actual conversation requires a really, serious complex search warrant. Any federal agent who tapped a phone 'routinely' would be liable to serious prison time. As bad is the AUSA who interviews the employee of a target without disclosing her role or motive.On the financial side, the interactions of the principals of the underwriter related to the inside info are equally absurd.Much of the background does check out, but these incidents mar the film substantially.