An Amish Home: Four Novellas
Beth Wiseman, Amy Clipston, Ruth Reid and Kathleen Fuller
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A Cup Half Full by Beth Wiseman-Sarah Lantz always dreamed of the perfect home, the perfect husband,...
A Life Everlasting: The Extraordinary Story of One Boy's Gift to Medical Science
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A donor mother's powerful memoir of grief and rebirth that is also a fascinating medical science...
Funny Vines
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ICB Jesus Calling Bible for Children: With Devotions from Sarah Young's Jesus Calling
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Dive into God's Word as you enjoy heartfelt devotional time with the ICB Jesus Calling Bible for...
I Am Watching You
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What would it take to make you intervene? When Ella Longfield overhears two attractive young men...
Gareth von Kallenbach (971 KP) rated Equity (2016) in Movies
Jul 15, 2019
‘Equity’ appeared in competition at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival and stars Anna Gunn, Sarah Megan Thomas, Alysia Renier, James Purefoy, Sophie Von Haselburg, Margret Colin, Lee Tergesen, and Craig Bierko.
Investment banker Naomi Bishop (Anna Gunn) was one of the most successful investment bankers on Wall Street. She was unstoppable. Until she lost her first deal. Well into her career, she is striving to keep her reputation intact as a ‘rain maker’. The one in her company that secures the deal every time and brings record profits for her company in the process. In jeopardy of missing out on a promotion, she pours all her effort into her latest deal and in the process passes over her assistant Erin Manning (Sarah Megan Thomas) for a promotion. An eager young woman with a new husband and a baby on the way, Erin also strives to break through the ‘gender lines’ that still exist and make her on mark on Wall Street. At the same time Samantha (Alysia Reiner), an investigator who has recently made the jump from investigating federal drug cases to white collar crime, is looking into the activities of investment banker Micheal Connor (James Purefoy). Who may or may not be with the same firm as Naomi Bishop and also Naomi’s significant other . Bishop soon discovers the tangled web centering on this latest deal and soon realizes that not only might she have been betrayed, but it might have been from more than one of the people she ‘almost trusts’.
I found this film to be very much an example of the chaos in the world of finance as well as the personal lives that people in this field may or may not have and the dangers posed when you become friends or close to others in said field. A great deal, no pun intended, hinges on this world. The ‘average person’s’ future can be decided here and they have absolutely no control over it and all the while you have these folks bickering amongst themselves and scrambling for every dollar. Sometimes breaking the law in the process and sometimes with no regard as to whether it affects those closest to them. It is indeed chaos in a purer form with no ‘happy ending’ and no ‘bad ending’. It’s a multi-billion dollar game of musical chairs with chairs and people being removed.
The film is ‘realistic’. As far as what we, outside that world, see it as. It’s all a numbers game with the potential for great profit or great lose to them. Your friends and those you trust will turn on you like that. They care about the money and the next big deal. People just fall by the waist side. It’s a rather refreshing take on ‘greed and ambition’. I give this film 4 out of 5 stars.
Christians and Jews in Angevin England: The York Massacre of 1190, Narratives and Contexts
Sarah Rees Jones and Sethina C. Watson
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The mass suicide and murder of the men, women and children of the Jewish community in York on 16...
Hamlet: Text of the Play, the Actors' Gallery, Contexts, Criticism, Afterlives, Resources
William Shakespeare and Robert S. Miola
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This Norton Critical Edition of Hamlet features a newly edited text based on the Second Quarto...