By |
Ayad Akhtar | ||
Directed by | Michael Bloom |
ABOUT
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright of Disgraced comes a thriller about Nick, an American options trader and Citibank executive, held hostage by a fringe radical group in Pakistan. In an ingenious twist on the Stockholm Syndrome, the American captive offers to earn his own ransom by investing a multi-million dollar portfolio on behalf of his Islamic captors. Assisted by his guard Bashir, he begins to harness the power of free markets to accumulate a fortune on behalf of the group's leader, Imam Saleem. In the midst of violence, corruption and inequality, Bashir proves to be not just a sharp critic of Western materialism but also an apt pupil of Nick's trading strategies.
CAST
![]() Maboud Ebrahimzadeh (Bashir) |
![]() Mueen Jahan (Imam Saleem) |
![]() Ahmad Kamal (Dar) |
![]() Thomas Keegan (Nick Bright) |
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