Rating: R
Genre:
Drama
Release Date: 08/30/2005
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: DD1
Run Time: 116 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Adult Situations, Not For Children, Profanity
Distributor/Studio: Warner Home Video
Alan J. Pakula directs the
political thriller Rollover, produced by leading lady
Jane Fonda's production company,
IPC Films. Featuring a racist plot and negative stereotypes about the Arab world, this film reflected the American fear of the Middle East prevalent in the early '80s.
Fonda stars as former film star
Lee Winters, who inherits a multimillion-dollar company when her corporate bigwig husband is murdered. She teams up with banker
Hubbell Smith (
Kris Kristofferson) in order to find her husband's killer and survive in the world of high-stakes international finance. They become lovers and travel together to Saudi Arabia to secure a loan and to guarantee
Lee's spot as the company's board chairman. However, they end up discovering an Arab company's plan to withdraw money from the world's banks in order to destabilize the Western economy.
Rollover also stars
Hume Cronyn and
Josef Sommer. This story also foreshadowed
Jane Fonda's marriage to corporate bigwig
Ted Turner in 1991.
~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide
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