Rollover (1981)

The widow of a murdered bank president and a maverick financier must prevent a crisis when Arab nations threaten to pull their funds from U.S. banks thereby causing a worldwide financial collapse.Running Time: 118 min.System Requirements:Running Time 115 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: R UPC: 012569722651 Product Description

Very Current Subject re: Chine and Middle East Bailout of Wallstreet

If you saw the 60 Minutes with Leslie Stahl who interviews the guy in China who is dumping billions into Wall Street lately....which is what made me think of this movie.....then you would understand its relevance.
Very suspenseful. April 7, 2008

daring

This is, to my knowledge, the only major Hollywood movie ever made to attempt to expose the power of the Arab oil tycoons and what they might do with that power. No such movie would be allowed to be made now, which is a further testiment to that power and to the fact that this power is now being wielded inside the United States and not just from the outside.

So, enjoy the movie. There will never be another one like it. And if you want the facts, read Sleeping with the Devil. Also, Blood and Oil.
May 1, 2007

Romancing the Market Mystery

A handsome, clean shaven Kris Kristopherson with his smoky Texas drawl romances a stunning Jane Fonda in a clever mystery constructed around worldwide high finance. Good solid performances by both, but it is a tad difficult to believe Fonda is from Arkansas and Kristopherson from south Texas is a sophisticated, debonair banker. As a mystery, it keeps you guessing. April 10, 2007

A Cautionary Tale

While I can certainly argue about the cast, the plotline (given its Hollywood source) is plausible and frightening. It isn't about the Saudi's out to destroy the world or greedy bankers. It is a story about what might happen if the U.S. owed a large part of their debt to overseas investors and those investors panicked.

Swap Asians for Arabs and cheap goods for oil and you are all set. Almost half of all U.S. debt is owned by foreign investors now, including many that are not friendly to us. It is in their interest not to dump this debt on the market at the moment but what if bonds or the dollar (or both) started to seriously slide? What if they decided it was "them or us" and weren't going to see their investments implode. Watch the movie and see how an innocent action might trigger such a response.

It is true that only folks with a good understanding of international economics will "get it" and I am surprised such a movie was even released. If you have the background and can put up with the actors, this is quite a fascinating tale. October 8, 2006

A taut, disturbing film due to its reasonable plot

For me, this is one of Kris Kristofferson's better movies. He plays a bank examiner that finds that one of the bank's Middle East accounts is siphoning off 5% of funds from maturing commercial paper (CP) into gold rather than reinvesting (or rolling over, thus the name of the movie) the proceeds back into more CP issued by the bank. The plot of the movie is finding out why. While some may be turned off by a financially oriented movie, it is scary in the sense that "Jaws" was: it's plausible that it could happen (investors buy gold). What we hope doesn't occur in real life is what is portrayed at the end of this movie (it's highly unlikely that it would occur, but then Long Term Capital Management, with two Nobel prize winners on board, wasn't supposed to implode either). It's suspenseful, but non-financial type people should rent this rather than buy it (one viewing is good enough). This would have received five stars were it not for Jane being in it. July 9, 2005

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