Owning Mahowny (2003) on Netflix
Dan Mahowny is promoted to assistant branch manager at a Toronto bank and gains access to bigger accounts. His boss trusts him and does not know about his compulsive gambling.
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Plot summary
Between 1980 and 1982, Dan Mahowny works at a bank in Toronto, where colleagues take him for a workaholic and customers find him helpful. His promotion to assistant branch manager gives him access to larger accounts, and his boss trusts him. None of them know that Mahowny is a compulsive gambler. Friends know him as a quiet man who watches sports on television. His girlfriend Belinda, who also works at the bank, cannot understand what is happening to him. He skims from the accounts for his own use and makes weekly trips to Atlantic City, where the casino manager treats him as a favored guest.
Cast
- Eric Finkas Psychologist
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Owning Mahowny (2003)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The film is based on Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce clerk Brian Molony, who embezzled over $10 million from his employers in just 18 months to support his gambling habit.
- Asked whether Philip Seymour Hoffman's portrayal matched the real Brian Molony, journalist Gary Ross replied, "Remarkably so. They have the same stocky build, bushy mustache, glasses, slightly unkempt look, and earnestness."
- The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce took court action to recover funds from casinos in Atlantic City that had enabled Molony's gambling addiction, and the case was settled for an undisclosed sum.
- Molony, a manager at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, was prosecuted in Canada by Crown Attorney Peter DeJulio and defended by Edward Greenspan, and he received a sentence of six years imprisonment, as sought by the Crown.
- Molony's story was told in the best-selling 1987 book Stung by journalist Gary Ross, and that book formed the basis for the film's screenplay.
