While the vast majority of movies centered around Wall Street view it from a male perspective, this year at Sundance we got a drama that looks at the often-neglected female side. Meera Menon’s Equity follows Breaking Bad‘s Anna Gunn as she navigated greed and sexism in the stock trade. Produced, written, and directed by women, the first trailer has now arrived ahead of a summer release by Sony Pictures Classics.
We said in our review (a portion of which is quoted in the trailer), “Equity is more nuanced, if not as ferociously confidant as that 1987 Oliver Stone film, here focusing on the nitty gritty of a market launch of a social media-style security company. In a post-Snowden leaks and Sony hacks world, the set-up seems entirely plausible, but the thrust of the plot isn’t really what derives the drama.”
Check out the trailer below for the film also starring James Purefoy, Sarah Megan Thomas, and Alysia Reiner.
When Senior investment banker Naomi Bishop (Anna Gunn) is passed over for a promotion at her firm, she fights for the opportunity to take a start-up public, hoping this promising IPO will secure her a place at the firm’s highest level. But when an employee at the start-up raises questions about a possible crack in the company’s walls, Naomi must decide whether to investigate rumors that may compromise the deal, or push forward with the confidence her superiors expect.
Soon Naomi finds herself tangled in a web of deception and office politics and begins to question if there is anyone she can trust. As the IPO draws closer, Naomi sees that the choices she has made for her career have left her very much alone. Forced to reexamine the rules of the cutthroat world she has always loved she finds herself in a fight for her very survival.
Equity opens on July 29th, 2016.