There aren’t very many good movies about business, but Equity is one of them. Anna Gunn plays an investment banker launching an Initial Public Offering (IPO) that will make or break her career. Very high stress. Directed by Meera Menon and written by Amy Fox, Equity shows the duplicity and backstabbing that can occur when millions of dollars are at stake. James Purefoy plays Michaal O’Connor, Gunn’s lover and possible competitor. Sarah Megan Thomas is convincing as Gunn’s Girl Friday. Alysia Reiner steals every scene she’s in as Samantha, an SEC investigator who yearns to bust some hedge-fund billionaires. I really liked the Machiavellian plot and all of the realism of the characters’ decisions. If you’re a fan of business skulduggery, Equity delivers. GRADE: B+
And as someone who cannot keep her mind on anything with numbers, it didn’t do much for me. I saw a good movie on the screen in front of me but just didn’t concentrate. I remember my high school math teachers telling me the same thing.
Patti, one of my criticisms of EQUITY is that sometimes the plot got “into the weeds” of numbers and stock prices a little too much.
Sounds like quite a different role for Purefoy from Hap and Leonard.
Jeff, Purefoy shows his versatility in EQUITY. Yes, the role is 180 degrees from HAP AND LEONARD.
One busy actor. Hap. The serial killer in The Following. Mark Anthony in Rome.
Steve, Purefoy is a hot commodity right now. He’s getting plenty of roles to play. I spoke to Joe Lansdale at BOUCHERCON and said he was working on the final script for the next season of HAP AND LEONARD.