Banker, The

A captivating, factually based, entertaining, inspirational, well-acted, star-dotted (Colm Meaney, Jessie T. Usher, Gregory Alan, Travis West, Michael Harney, and Jaylon Gordon), 2-hour film in which brilliant, ambitious, savvy, African-American real estate investor Bernard Garrett (Anthony Mackie) moves to Los Angeles from Texas with his devoted wife (Nia Long) in 1954, becomes partners with golden-tongued entrepreneurial investor and nightclub owner Joe Morris (Samuel L. Jackson) and together hire quick-learning, blue collar, white construction worker Matt Steiner (Nicholas Hoult), who married a waitress (Taylor Black), to act as the front man in real estate deals while they pose as a chauffeur and a janitor, and eventually the empire comes under the scrutiny of the Federal government after they become the first African-American bank owners and two of the wealthiest businessmen in the United States.
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