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  • 2020
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  • Bleecker Street Media
  • 2 h
  • 2020
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  • Bleecker Street Media
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Summary Revolutionary businessmen Bernard Garrett (Anthony Mackie) and Joe Morris (Samuel L. Jackson) devise an audacious and risky plan to take on the racist establishment of the 1960s by helping other African Americans pursue the American dream. Along with Garrett's wife Eunice (Nia Long), they train a working class white man, Matt Steiner (Ni...

Directed By: George Nolfi

Written By: Niceole R. Levy, David Lewis Smith, Stan Younger, Brad Kane, George Nolfi

  • 2020
  • R
  • Bleecker Street Media
  • 2 h
  • 2020
  • R
  • Bleecker Street Media
  • 2 h

The Banker

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 19 Critic Reviews
59
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 39 User Ratings
7.4
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Summary Revolutionary businessmen Bernard Garrett (Anthony Mackie) and Joe Morris (Samuel L. Jackson) devise an audacious and risky plan to take on the racist establishment of the 1960s by helping other African Americans pursue the American dream. Along with Garrett's wife Eunice (Nia Long), they train a working class white man, Matt Steiner (Ni...

Directed By: George Nolfi

Written By: Niceole R. Levy, David Lewis Smith, Stan Younger, Brad Kane, George Nolfi

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 19 Critic Reviews
59
58% Positive
11 Reviews
37% Mixed
7 Reviews
5% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 19 Critic Reviews
59
58% Positive
11 Reviews
37% Mixed
7 Reviews
5% Negative
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75
Mar 25, 2020
George Nolfi directs with a TV-movie straightforwardness and at two hours the film is overlong, but the story is an eye-opener and the central performances are terrific.
By Ty Burr FULL REVIEW
70
Mar 5, 2020
For good stretches, The Banker can be as dryly engineered as a loan application, but the galvanizing story it tells — like a last stand of rebel ingenuity before the Fair Housing Act of 1968 made discrimination unlawful — is a solid interest-earner.
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Generally Favorable Based on 39 User Ratings
7.4
67% Positive
26 Ratings
31% Mixed
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3% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 39 User Ratings
7.4
67% Positive
26 Ratings
31% Mixed
12 Ratings
3% Negative
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Joudz
Mar 24, 2020
Every human needs to see this movie! Very inspiring, well done! Incredible true story!
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Timewavexero22
Mar 22, 2020
Great untold story of two ambitious entrepreneurs. A must watch for anyone whose a fan of new source material.
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65
Mar 6, 2020
The story chronicles a fascinating moment in the civil rights movement, without yielding quite the returns that it should.
By Brian Lowry FULL REVIEW
63
Mar 6, 2020
The Banker remains only serviceable.
By Monica Castillo FULL REVIEW
59
Mar 4, 2020
Mackie does a decent job of articulating his anger, and the filmmakers clearly care about the issues, but The Banker doesn’t take the narrative risks necessary to tell its story powerfully. Competence is all we get instead, and competence isn’t quite enough.
By William Bibbiani FULL REVIEW
50
Mar 5, 2020
The Banker is a sadly facile and largely surface level rendering of a profoundly complex problem that deserves more attention.
By Oliver Jones FULL REVIEW
30
Mar 6, 2020
The Banker is like a shell of a movie, with a desperate lack of personality. The ingredients are there, down to the inevitable moment in the end credits when photos of the real people are placed alongside the actors playing them. Yet just as Apple TV+’s original series are lacking the element of dramatic excitement, so too is The Banker.
By Josh Spiegel FULL REVIEW
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10
stretea
Mar 6, 2020
This movie is an incredibly powerful true story set during Civil Rights about two forgotten heroes that inspires people to pursue their version of the American Dream at all costs and not let obstacles get in the way such as race and discrimination.
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9
imconorirl
Apr 30, 2020
This film is touching, sad, frustrating and uplifting in all the right places. The best film that Apple TV+ as to offer.
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fachrulfebrian
Apr 26, 2020
good story and strong performence. and I love movie about justice. just watching
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FadeBlack
Nov 17, 2021
Two fantastic, very watchable actors, but a story devoid of almost any and all intrigue or interest. Non-eventful, or at least the events depicted were not given enough gravity.
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Mauro_Lanari
Apr 16, 2020
(Mauro Lanari) Ethnic equality of access to the American dream. But hadn't it turned out that it was a nightmare instead?
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Production Company Romulus Entertainment, Hyphenate Films, Iam21 Entertainment, Mad Hatter Films
Release Date Mar 6, 2020
Duration 2 h
Rating R
Genres
Tagline Don't Pay the Man. Be the Man.
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Awards

Image Awards (NAACP)
• 1 Win & 4 Nominations
The CAFTCAD awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Leo Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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