Everyone can cut a deal. Well, at least
everyone who lives to see the end of the tale. Robert Miller (Richard Gere) is
selling his self-made top-of-the-line hedge fund empire. A few hundred million
dollars of accounting jugglery owing to some badly placed bets notwithstanding.
Robert takes a late-night jaunt with mistress Julie (Laeticia Casta) – and a
terrible road accident ensues, leading to Julie’s demise. The rest of the movie
is about Robert holding on to the increasingly shaky prospects of keeping
his family as well as the proposed sale on course, as the skeletons threaten to tumble
out from the cupboard one after another. Arbitrage
is an amoral story, perhaps intended to extract some modicum of sympathy for a
profession much-maligned of late, in particular for one of its stereotypical
New York protagonists
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