Anna Friel, Betsy Brantley, Caroline Langrishe

McGregor gives yet another strong performance in this riveting thriller telling the true story of Nick Leeson, the man who singlehandedly caused the dissolution of the British-based Barings Bank throu...( read more  read more... )gh insider trading as an employee of the bank in Singapore.

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Directed by: James Dearden

Release Date: January 1, 1999

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DVD Release Date: December 14, 1999

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  • October 19, 2006
    Disappointing.
  • March 26, 2007
    I never thought a movie about stocks/stock trader would be interesting but it was. I'm not from England so I didn't know this history. What a story.
  • November 7, 2009
    good enjoyable movie
  • June 29, 2009
    i had never heard about this story until i saw this movie. it was interesting...probably would have been better if i had any clue about the stock market.
  • June 10, 2009
    Ambitious, wide-boy Nick Leeson is determined to rise in the world and be more than a simple bank clerk.
    When his employers, Barings Bank, offer him the opportunity to go to Jakarta to sort out a problem that nobody else wants, he seizes the opportunity with both hands.
    In Ja...( read more)karta he meets and marries Lisa and together they go to Singapore when the bank offers him the job of setting up their future options trading operation.
    To save money the bank allows Nick to operate both the floor trading and the back office facilities and force him to employ cheap, unskilled staff.
    His first year of trading is a big success and he makes large profits for the bank even though he has illegally broken trading rules and secretly covered up losses. Given more freedom, even more money and continuing unchecked,
    Nick starts to make losses and again attempts to trade out of them but this time he comes unstuck as his illegal trading generates even bigger losses.
    After the death of his unborn child Nick completely loses control and gambles without restraint with other people's money leading inevitably to a complete financial meltdown and the bankruptcy of the bank

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    Nick Leeson: I, Nicholas Leeson, have just lost 50 million quid, in one day!
  • July 25, 2008
    More of an educational docu-drama than a proper film it still gives a good insight into the fall of barings and the utter incompetance of everyone involved
  • July 24, 2008
    wow i have just seen this 4 the 1st time n think that this is a pretty good drama movie 2 watch...this has got a good cast of actors/actressess throughout the movie..the scenery throughout the movie is pretty kewl throughout...i think that the director of this movie had done a go...( read more)od job of directing this movie because you never know what 2 expect throughout this movie because the director keeps you on the edge's of your seats throguhout the movie...i think that ewan McGregor was really good as the title role of the movie as he plays nick lesson throughout this whole movie..
  • April 28, 2008
    sIkIldIm hep ayni sey. bi kazaniyo bi kaybediyo bi kazaniyo bi de filmin sonunda kaybediyomus galiba öyle okuduum için sonuna kadar izleyesim gelmedi.
  • April 20, 2008
    ewan mcgregor plays nick leeson, in a true story of a stock market trader in singapor, who through trying to hide his losses brought down barings, one of the last private banks in the u.k, we se him

    , through thinking career before business sence, set up dummy acounts, whe...( read more)n anything goes wrong but goes way over his head, mcgregor shows here why hes such a great actor, getting into nicks skin and charactor, loosing his scottish acent and replacing it with a londoner, ie works well, its great looking at the workings of a working bank and its finances, and certainly looks very authentic, although the film sometimes feels a little t.v movie, it always overcomes it, mcgregor showing panic very well, its said at the end of it all he dident steel a penny, that may be open to dabate, and certainly one sided story,but a great watch
  • February 23, 2008
    True stories are generally compelling, but this film wasn't all that special.

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