Rollover (1981) on Netflix
R19811h 56mDramaMysteryRomanceThriller
Lee Winters, widow of a murdered petrochemical chairman, wants to buy a plant in Spain. Hubbell Smith, president of Borough National Bank, needs a customer borrowing millions to keep it afloat.
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- Netflix3.1/5
- IMDb5.4/101,628 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes70%
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Plot summary
Charlie Winters, chairman and chief stockholder of Winterchem Enterprises, is found stabbed in his office after he turns up payment instructions to First New York Bank, account 21214; the papers disappear with the killer. His widow, Lee Winters, stays on the Winterchem board and pushes the company to buy a petrochemical plant in Spain. The plant would cost about $500 million. Maxwell Emery, chairman of First New York Bank, asks the financier Hubbell Smith to take over as president of Borough National Bank, which is short of cash and cannot even pay its next dividend. Smith's only route to quick money is a customer who needs a very large loan, and Winterchem is Borough National's biggest customer.
Cast
- Crocker Nevinas Warner Ackerman
- Paul Hechtas Khalid
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Rollover (1981)
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- Kim Newman wrote during the 2007-2008 financial crisis that Rollover's depiction of a Wall Street panic causing a global economic crisis had become "eerily prophetic," adding it was more pertinent than Wall Street and should have been required viewing at treasuries worldwide.
- Rollover's specific reference to "Fanny Mae", the Federal National Mortgage Association, has been cited as particularly prescient because of Fannie Mae's role in the subprime mortgage crisis.
- The scenario of a broken "dollar loop," in which sudden withdrawal of foreign capital causes soaring interest rates, hyperinflation and systemic banking failure, has featured in contemporary simulations modeling Middle Eastern conflicts and a possible decoupling of global oil markets from the U.S. dollar.
