The Bank, a world ripe with avarice and corruption, where O'Reilly and his ilk can thrive and honest Aussie battlers lose everything. Enter Jim Doyle a maverick mathematician who has devised a formula to predict the fluctuations of the stock market. When he joins O'Reilly's fold, he must first prove his loyalty to the "greed is good" ethos. Which way will he go? What does he have to hide?
Acting
LaPaglia's smarmy banker makes you want to throw things.
Writing
That ending — perfectly cruel, perfectly earned.
Direction
Connolly turns spreadsheets into genuine tension.
Director
Robert Connolly
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released months after Enron collapsed, it captured Australia's post-HIH insurance scandal fury. The villain's name 'O'Reilly' was reportedly chosen to echo real banking fat cats.
David Wenham learned complex mathematical notation for trading floor scenes, then discovered the prop equations were gibberish anyway. He committed anyway — method king.
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