– By Cate Marquis –
EQUITY is ambitious film about women on Wall Street but not fully successful entertainment
Rating: 3 1/2 out of 5 stars
EQUITY is a film about Wall Street but not the usual kind. For one thing, it is about women working on Wall Street. The film is also not about the economic meltdown or other famous scandal, but instead is just about an investment banker, Naomi Bishop (Anna Gunn), who has risen to the top, playing the investment game with the big boys, in what is predominately a man’s business world. The title refers more to the kind of equity one means when you say “pay equity.”
This is a remarkable film for what it is not – the usual financial drama with men in the lead roles. Not only is the main character a woman but all the major characters are women. In this financial drama, all the really central roles filled by women, and men are in the supporting and romantic interest parts, the movie roles to which women are too often consigned. And these are smart, ambitious women, in a tough competitive business.
There is just something inherently cool about that. To boost that coolness, the film is also directed by a woman, Meera Menon, and written by a trio of women, Amy Fox, Sarah Megan Thomas, and Alysia Reiner. There are plenty of women among the producers and the crew but even better, women on financed the film, real “Wall Street women,” as a way to bring their real work and lives to the screen.
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