THE BANK

A sleek Australian thriller that is well timed to tap the public’s disgust with financial institutions and the number-crunchers who run them. Anthony LaPaglia portrays Simon O’Reilly, the gleefully arrogant chief executive of Centabank, a profit-hungry institution with assets exceeding $50 billion. When Jim Doyle (David Wenham), a hotshot young mathematician, approaches Simon with designs for a computer program based on chaos theory that Jim says can predict stock market crashes, Simon decides to invest in perfecting it.

Starring: David Wenham (Jim Doyle) Anthony LaPaglia (Simon O’Reily) Sybilla Budd (Michelle Roberts) Steve Rodgers (Wayne Davis)

Director: Robert Connolly
Producer: John Maynard