Rollover
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| Orion Pictures | Release Date: December 11, 1981 |
Starring:
Bob Gunton, Crocker Nevin, Hume Cronyn, Jane Fonda, Jodi Long, Josef Sommer, Kris Kristofferson, Macon McCalman, Marvin Chatinover, Ron Frazier
Summary:
An Arab oil organization devises a plan to wreck the world economy in order to cause anarchy and chaos.
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Pakula again uses big-name stars to deliver a political message. This time around Fonda and Kristofferson are involved in the world of high finance that teeters on the brink of disaster when Arab countries threaten to pull their money from US banks instead of letting it "roll over."
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Miss Fonda has thought to make a thriller out of that unthrilling process. [12 Dec 1981]
Rollover wants to be a thriller, love story and economics lesson rolled into one, but in trying to do so much, it shortchanges each element. The screenplay (by David Shaber from a story by Shaber, Howard Kohn and David Weir) doesn't hang together. [14 Dec 1981, p.125]
The movie insists that the fate of the world hangs on the actions of these people. If you buy that, you'll buy anything. [11 Dec 1981, p.31]
Lacking the necessary gusto and sexual chemistry, Rollover is doomed by an excess of huffing and puffing...Despite posh accessories and surroundings, Jane Fonda and leading man Kris Kristofferson seem oddly haggard as well as mismatched -- two rawboned impostors who can't believe in themselves as a dynamic, voluptuous erotic duo. Their skepticism is well-founded. [11 Dec 1981, p.C3]
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