Anthony Mackie is a property wizard who in the 1950s comes up with the brilliant plan to buy the building that houses several LA banks head offices. In conjunction with Samuel L Jackson he does so, then makes the mistake of buying a bank in Texas, using Nicholas Hoult as a front, and making loans to black people. And from there things go steadily downhill and end up in jail. And it's all Nicholas Hoult's fault.
And all these things are mad, of course, and the laws did change.
And it's a true story, written by Niceole Levy & George Nolfi and David Lewis Smith & Stan Younger.
You want Nolfi to be a black director, really, don't you? He isn't, unfortunately. But the film is pretty successful and enjoyable. Mae for Apple.
I got onto it because it's another film photographed but the steadily good Charlotte Bruus Christensen, still one of the few female feature film cinematographers.
The music comes dangerously close to Tom Newman at one point.
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