From: John K. Pollard Jr. [mailto:jpollar2@san.rr.com]
Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 9:51 PM
To: gary s gevisser
Subject: Here is the Movie. The marked sentence in the Review at the end could have come from the mouth o any one of your critics.

Rollover (1981)

Directed by Alan J. Pakula Writing credits Howard Kohn David Shaber (also story) (more)

Genre: Drama (more)

Tagline: The most erotic thing in their world was money.

Plot Outline: An Arab oil organization devises a plan to wreck the world economy in order to cause anarchy and chaos.

User Comments: 24 years later and the Arabs are still rolling over (more)

User Rating: 4.9/10 (250 votes)

Credited cast:
Jane Fonda	....	Lee Winters
Kris Kristofferson	....	Hubbell Smith
Hume Cronyn	....	Maxwell Emery
Josef Sommer	....	Roy Lefcourt
Bob Gunton	....	Sal Naftari
Macon McCalman	....	Jerry Fewster
Ron Frazier	....	Gil Hovey
Jodi Long	....	Betsy Okamoto
Crocker Nevin	....	Warner Ackerman
Marvin Chatinover	....	Henry Lipscomb
Ira Wheeler	....	Mr. Whitelaw (as Ira B. Wheeler)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Steve Ballard	....	Trader (as Steve Bullard)
Howard Erskine	....	Dodds
Carolyn Larson	....	Hub's Secretary
Martha Plimpton	....	Fewster's Older Daughter
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Runtime: 118 min
Country: USA
Language: English
Color: Color (Technicolor)
Sound Mix: Stereo
Certification: Argentina:18 / Finland:K-16 / Norway:16 / USA:R / Canada:A

Awards: 1 nomination (more)

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User Comments:

2 out of 2 people found the following comment useful:-
24 years later and the Arabs are still rolling over, 12 April 2005
Author: ubercommando from London

This is an economic conspiracy theory dragged out to feature film length where you have to accept the central premise and disregard all other factors such as reality. But hey, that's what a lot of conspiracy theory films are all about anyway. This film was a favourite of a nut job acquaintance of mine which probably explains why I don't like it. The ending is especially ludicrous: The world financial system melts down, the western nations are in chaos, there's rioting in the streets, millions will die, cities being destroyed all on TV screens behind Fonda and Kristofferson and what do they do? Shrug their shoulders, embrace, laugh a bit and all to soppy melodramatic music. You would think their response would be "world in ruins...oh holy crap!"