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Synopsis: On the spur of the moment, twenty-eight year old Manhattan self-made multi-billionaire Eric Packer decides he wants to get a haircut from his regular and longtime barber across town, a difficult journey today if only because of the traffic gridlock from three high profile but vastly different events taking place in the borough, including a wandering anarchist protest, they who largely use dead rats as their symbol of protest. Through his trek, Eric, most taking place in his stretch limousine, meets with several business associates - some with as esoteric job titles as Head of Theory - and personal acquaintances, including his several week bride, Elise, a wealthy woman in her own right with who he still has a somewhat distant relationship if only because they don't really know each other. The start of Eric's day ends much differently than the end as his personal fortune largely hinges on external forces in relation to a speculative currency transaction, and as he learns that someone is
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Director(s): David Cronenberg
Production: Entertainment One
  3 wins & 12 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.0
Metacritic:
58
Rotten Tomatoes:
65%
R
Year:
2012
109 min
$600,000
Website
1,926 Views


It charts.

You just have to search a little harder.

Don't trust standard models, think outside the limits.

The yuan is making a statement.

Read it and leap.

We are betting big time here.

I know that smile and I wanna respect it,

but the yuan can't go any higher.

I wanna trust it.

We're borrowing enormous enormous sums.

Any assault on the borders of

perception is gonna seem rash at first...

Yeah, come on, we're speculating into the void!

Your mother blamed the

smile on your father

he blamed her

there's something deadly about it

she thought she had to enroll

you in special counseling.

I think we ought to adjust.

Where's Shiner?

On his way to the airport.

Why are they called airports?

I know I can't answer these questions

without losing your respect.

Shiner told me our network is secure.

Then it is.

Safe from penetrations.

Why am I seeing things that

haven't happened yet?

How old are you?

What? 22!

You look younger.

I was always younger than anyone

around me. One day I began to change.

I don't feel younger.

I feel located totally nowhere.

Think I'm ready to quit,

basically the business.

Put a stick of gum in your

mouth and try not to chew it.

For someone your age and your gifts, there's only one

thing in the world worth pursuing both professionally and intellectually.

What is it, Michael?

The interaction between

technology and capital

the inseparability.

Highschool was the last true challenge.

There's a poem I read in which

a rat becomes the unit of currency.

Yes, that would be interesting.

Yeah, that would

impact the world economy.

The name alone,

better than the dong or the kwacha.

The name says everything.

Yes.

The rat.

Yes, the rat close lower

today against the euro.

Yes, there's going concern that

the Russian rat will be devalued.

White rats, think about that.

Yes, pregnant rats.

Major sell-offs of

Russian pregnant rats.

Britain converts the rat.

Joins trend to universal currency.

Yes, US is establishing

the rat standard.

Is every US dollar

redeemable for rat?

Dead rats!

Yes, stockpiling of dead rats called

global health menace.

How old are you, now that

you're not younger than everyone else?

Was I expecting you?

Just passing by.

Thought you'd drop in, did you?

That's nice. I'm glad.

Been a while.

I read about it.

Of course. Or did I see it on TV?

What?

What? The wedding!

Strange you didn't tell me.

It's not so strange.

Not so strange?

Two great fortunes!

Like one of those great arranged

marriages of old empire Europe.

Except I'm a world citizen with

a New York pair of balls.

So how many billions together

do you two represent?

She's a poet.

Is that what she is?

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David Cronenberg

David Paul Cronenberg, CC OOnt FRSC (born March 15, 1943) is a Canadian filmmaker, actor and author. Cronenberg is one of the principal originators of what is commonly known as the body horror or visceral horror genre. This style of filmmaking explores people's fears of bodily transformation and infection. In his films, the psychological is typically intertwined with the physical. In the first half of his career, he explored these themes mostly through horror and science fiction, although his work has since expanded beyond these genres. His films have won numerous awards, including the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival for his film Crash (1996). more…

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