Dealers (film)

Dealers is a 1989 British film directed by Colin Bucksey. It stars Paul McGann and Rebecca De Mornay.

Dealers received a fairly mixed response from American critics at the Austin Texas film festival, some describing it as poorly acted and poorly scripted, with others describing it as having an edgeofyourseat climax. The film was popular among university students. However the film was extremely popular by the very people it protagonised and herofied for ever. Risk taking propriety traders or prop traders In the City where it was based, Londons Financial Square Mile it became an instant must see by city gents and city girls mostly because of its incredible attention to detail but also by the fact the realistic roller coaster tension took your breath away and that by comparison left the other film in its wake. It was regarded as a slice of a bygone life, of overthephone, overthecounter bond dealing, high salary, high bonus, trading floor culture. A brokerage house and investment bank little known but cult classic. An epic that captures the essence of the wheeler dealer. The dealing room itself was so meticulously well done, costing a rumoured one million Pounds, that it was kept intact and a whole television series in Britain was made and based on it, called Capital City TV Series which successfully capitalized on the post Wall Street, trendy City Job, City Lifestyle.

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