Review The Banker (2020)

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Two African American entrepreneurs, Bernard Garrett (Mackie) and Joe Morris (Jackson), who spent the 1950s trying to circumvent racial limitations by recruiting a working class white guy named Matt Steiner (Hoult) and training him to pose as the head of their business. At the same time, they posed as a janitor and a chauffeur.

Bernard’s wife Eunice (Nia Long), plays a key role in setting up the enterprise with the pair becoming two of the wealthiest and most successful real estate owners in the country with Steiner as their front man. Their success soon brings about unforeseen risk of exposure that threatens everything.

 

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Jackson, Mackie, Hoult Join “Banker”





Samuel L. Jackson, Anthony Mackie, Nicholas Hoult and Nia Long are all set to star in the fact based drama “The Banker” for Romulus Entertainment.

The story follows two African American entrepreneurs, Bernard Garrett (Mackie) and Joe Morris (Jackson), who spent the 1950s trying to circumvent racial limitations by recruiting a working class white guy named Matt Steiner (Hoult) and training him to pose as the head of their business. At the same time, they posed as a janitor and a chauffeur.

Bernard’s wife Eunice (Nia Long), plays a key role in setting up the enterprise with the pair becoming two of the wealthiest and most successful real estate owners in the country with Steiner as their front man. Their success soon brings about unforeseen risk of exposure that threatens everything.

Filmmaker George Nolfi (“The Adjustment Bureau,” “Birth of The Dragon”) directs the project which Brad Feinstein is producing. Filming is now underway in Atlanta. Nolfi, Mackie, Joel Viertel, Nnamdi Asomugha and Jonathan Baker are producing.

 

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George Nolfi follows up the under-appreciated “The Adjustment Bureau” and the straight up crap “Birth of the Dragon” with this more promising true story tale of two African American entrepreneurs (played by Anthony Mackie and Samuel L. Jackson) who, during the 1950’s, take on the establishment by recruiting a working-class white man (Nic Hoult) and train him to pose as the head of their business empire while they posed as a janitor and a chauffeur. The pair becomes two of the wealthiest and most successful real estate owners in the country with Steiner as their frontman, but their success brings about an unforeseen risk of exposure. Nia Long, Colm Meaney and Jessie T. Usher co-star.

 

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The Banker (2020) ⭐ 7.3 | Biography, Drama

2h | PG-13

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