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  • 2010
  • R
  • Magnolia Pictures
  • 1 h 57 m
  • 2010
  • R
  • Magnolia Pictures
  • 1 h 57 m

Summary This documentary feature takes an in-depth look at the rapid rise and dramatic fall of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer. Nicknamed "The Sheriff of Wall Street," when he was NY's Attorney General, Eliot Spitzer prosecuted crimes by America’s largest financial institutions and some of the most powerful executives in the country. After his e...

Directed By: Alex Gibney

Written By: Alex Gibney

  • 2010
  • R
  • Magnolia Pictures
  • 1 h 57 m
  • 2010
  • R
  • Magnolia Pictures
  • 1 h 57 m

Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 24 Critic Reviews
68
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 7 User Ratings
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Summary This documentary feature takes an in-depth look at the rapid rise and dramatic fall of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer. Nicknamed "The Sheriff of Wall Street," when he was NY's Attorney General, Eliot Spitzer prosecuted crimes by America’s largest financial institutions and some of the most powerful executives in the country. After his e...

Directed By: Alex Gibney

Written By: Alex Gibney

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Eliot Spitzer

Self - Former Governor, New York

Alex Gibney

Self - Narrator

Hulbert Waldroup

Self - Painter

Lloyd Constantine

Self - Former Spitzer Advisor

Peter Elkind

Self - Author, Rough Justice: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer

Darren Dopp

Self - Spitzer Communications Director

Zana Brazdek

Self - Formerly of Emperors Club VIP

Natalia

Self - Former Escort

Ashley Dupré

Self - Escort

David Brown

Self - Former Spitzer Staff Lawyer

Noreen Harrington

Self - Former Executive, Stern Asset Management

Wrenn Schmidt

Angelina

Kenneth Langone

Self - Chairman & CEO, Invemed Associates

Hank Greenberg

Self - Former Chairman and CEO AIG

Richard Beattie

Self - Legal Counsel to the Independent Directors of AIG

John Houldsworth

Self - Former CEO of Gen Re Subsidiary

Elizabeth Monrad

Self - Former CFO of Gen Re

Robert Graham

Self - Former Gen Re Counsel

John C. Whitehead

Self - Former Chairman Goldman Sachs

Cecil Suwal

Self - Former CEO, Emperors Club VIP

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 24 Critic Reviews
68
83% Positive
20 Reviews
8% Mixed
2 Reviews
8% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 24 Critic Reviews
68
83% Positive
20 Reviews
8% Mixed
2 Reviews
8% Negative
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88
Nov 11, 2010
Client 9 speaks plenty of truth - about politics, power, human nature - even if you don't buy into the hit-job hypothesis.
By Steven Rea FULL REVIEW
80
Jan 13, 2011
No simple tabloid recap. Gibney applies himself to two mysteries, neither of which he unravels but both of which make for gripping cinema.
By J.R. Jones FULL REVIEW

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Generally Favorable Based on 7 User Ratings
7.0
71% Positive
5 Ratings
29% Mixed
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80
Nov 5, 2010
Gibney puts mystery back into a story we thought we knew.
By Joe Neumaier FULL REVIEW
75
Nov 12, 2010
At times Client 9 feels frustratingly incomplete. Gibney hints at a conspiracy among Spitzer's enemies but is unable to fully substantiate this thesis.
By James Berardinelli FULL REVIEW
75
Nov 2, 2010
As Gibney and Spitzer are at pains to point out, it's a story as old as Icarus: Man rises to power; man makes enemies; man gets greedy and is undone.
By Michelle Orange FULL REVIEW
63
Nov 11, 2010
Gibney has too much information, too much material, and too many people to shape a mystery or a drama or even a farce out of it all. His movie has elements of all three without ever sustaining one.
By Wesley Morris FULL REVIEW
25
Nov 5, 2010
Let us return to reality (all this happened less than three years ago; do documentarians think we don't read the papers?).
By Kyle Smith FULL REVIEW
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Production Company A&E IndieFilms, Jigsaw Productions, Wider Film Projects
Release Date Nov 5, 2010
Duration 1 h 57 m
Rating R
Genres
Tagline Money. Sex. Power. Betrayal.
Website http://www.facebook.com/pages/Client-9-The-Rise-and-Fall-of-Eliot-Spitzer/139184389439364
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Awards

News & Documentary Emmy Awards
• 3 Nominations
Satellite Awards
• 1 Nomination
Directors Guild of America, USA
• 1 Nomination

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