The Deal
Crime, Drama, Thriller
Columbia TriStar  (2005) 107 mins R

5.1 (1,004 votes)
Set in the not too many years in the future, the United States is in a protracted conflict with the Confederation of Arab States, which has made gas prices skyrocket. Tom Hanson (Christian Slater) is a Wall Street whiz kid who is having a bad luck at home and work at the same time his venerable employer, investment bank Delaney & Strong, is struggling to stat afloat. Needing a big deal, company CEO Jared Tolson (Robert Loggia) asked Hanson to spearhead a gas and oil merger between two American and Russian companies. The deal could prop the investment bank up but the problem is Hanson isn’t an energy expert and the first manager of the merger was murdered. Hanson accepts and as he begins to unravel things, huge questions arise about ethics and the Russian mafia. Even internal forces are working against him as not everyone wants Hanson to run the merger. The energy expert at the company Ha...

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Cast and Crew
Christian Slater  ......  Tom Hanson
Selma Blair  ......  Abbey Gallagher
Robert Loggia  ......  Jared Tolson
Colm Feore  ......  Hank Weiss
Angie Harmon  ......  Anna
John Heard  ......  Professor Roseman
Director  .....  Harvey Kahn
Producer  .....  Robert Lee; Harvey Kahn; Chris Dorr; Ruth Epstein
Writer  .....  Ruth Epstein
Notes
Filming Locations:
Boston, Massachusetts, USA (more)

Quotes:
[from trailer]
Abbey Gallagher: What if there was no oil?
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