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The Laundromat
Based on actual secrets.
When a widow gets swindled out of insurance money, her search for answers leads to two cunning lawyers in Panama who hide cash for the superrich.
- Original title
- The Laundromat
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
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CinemaSerf
May 30, 2024 · via TMDB
This had the potential to be an eye-opening opportunity to bring to the fore all the devious antics and off-shore activities carried out by people from all nations - but recently publicised by the Mossack-Fonseca revelations. Instead, it delivered a largely pedestrian investi-journo kind of piece that traded heavily on the names of it's three stars and very little on any meaningful substance. The two-handers between Messrs. Oldman and Banderas are witty and focused, but captured against the banality of the rest of the film merely serve to illustrate why sheep have a shepherd. Meryl Streep is, I think, going for the Dame Judi Dench "how little screen-time can I get away with whilst still getting top billing award". What an open goal; what a miss....!
r96sk
Mar 7, 2021 · via TMDB
I didn't enjoy this at all, yet I still weirdly reflect on it to be better than it had any right to be. That's thanks to the cast of <em>'The Laundromat'</em>. Meryl Streep (Ellen), Gary Oldman (Mossack) and Antonio Banderas (Fonseca) are the main reasons I'm not rating this lower. They stop it becoming an annoying watch. You also have Jeffrey Wright, David Schwimmer and Nonso Anozie involved too - as well as even Sharon Stone and James Cromwell. I just didn't like the way they chose to portray everything, I appreciate what they went for but it simply didn't work for me. It's definitely one of those things, though, that will depend on the viewer - I'm sure many will find it good. The comedy is extremely lacking, in accordance to my tastes anyway. Also, even though I praised Oldman and Banderas themselves, I found their characters particularly irritating - same goes with the ending. Feels like it merits an inferior score and yet... A charitable 5*.
Sheldon Nylander
Oct 24, 2019 · via TMDB
Remember the Panama Papers? Those leaked documents that detailed how various people and companies created off-shore shell companies in order to avoid paying billions if not trillions in taxes around the world? No? I’m not surprised. It was a huge story that seemed to become a flash in the pan and many people forgot about it after the coverage dried up because, very likely, the corporations that run the news media tried to bury it. But these folks didn’t forget. The film’s title refers to the whole operation as generally being a money laundering scheme. Featuring an ensemble cast of Hollywood who’s who as well as who’s that, this Steven Soderbergh film invariably draws comparisons to Adam McKay’s “The Big Short,” both in subject matter and style. The narrators, played by Gary Oldman and Antonio Banderas, frequently address the camera directly. Usually, this has the effect of making the audience feel like they’re in on the scheme, but it’s not as effective as when it was used in, say, “House of Cards.” Why? I can’t quite put my finger on it, but it likely has to do with the complexity of the scheme. Their characters are more than just narrators, but are actual players in the overall story, lawyers who created the paperwork and did the legwork to get these schemes off the ground. As such, they actually try to explain it, both simplified and with a certain complexity that leaves one a little unsure of the truth. Maybe that was the idea, but from a storytelling perspective, it didn’t quite work. And effect is part of the problem with this film. Aside from being done as a comedy for what is in fact a very serious subject (the reporter who exposed this story was later killed by a car bomb), this film doesn’t feel very effective in conveying outrage. In fact, it feels less like outrage and more like being impotently miffed. The film doesn’t feel like it conveys the gravity of the situation. Which is very disappointing given the talent involved and the chance to really bring this subject back into the public eye. While I have to give the filmmakers credit with trying to make the complex money laundering scheme in the Panama Papers digestible to a general audience and keeping this visible, ultimately it feels like it’s too little too late.
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Meryl Streep
Ellen Martin / Elena
Gary Oldman
Jürgen Mossack
Antonio Banderas
Ramón Fonseca
Jeffrey Wright
Malchus Irvin Boncamper
Melissa Rauch
Melanie
Jane Morris
Barb Sidley
Robert Patrick
Captain Paris
David Schwimmer
Matthew Quirk
Cristela Alonzo
Special Agent Kilmer
Larry Clarke
Ellen's Attorney
Will Forte
Doomed Gringo #1
Chris Parnell
Doomed Gringo #2
Nonso Anozie
Charles
Larry Wilmore
Jeff
Jessica Allain
Simone
Nikki Amuka-Bird
Miranda
Matthias Schoenaerts
Maywood
Rosalind Chao
Gu Kailai
Kunjue Li
Gu's Aide
Ming Lo
Chief Wang Lijun
James Cromwell
Joseph David Martin
Sharon Stone
Hannah
AJ Meijer
Hominid #1
Arsenio Castellanos
Hominid #2
Lucy Morningstar
Hominid #3
Chris McLaughlin
First Mate
Jay Paulson
Pastor Conners
Juliet Donenfeld
Thalia
Brock Brenner
Kaylen
Marsha Stephanie Blake
Vincelle Boncamper
Daniyar
Sergei
Alexander Stasko
Felix
Amy Louise Pemberton
Friend of Sergei and Felix
Myron Parker Wright
Richard Boncamper
Miriam A. Hyman
Edith Boncamper
Veronica Osorio
Mr. Mossack's Secretary
Brenda Zamora
Mia Beltran
Zandy Hartig
Journalist
Nicholas Barrera
Bus Passenger
Fernando Martinez
Bus Driver
Melinna Bobadilla
Mossack Fonseca Employee #1
Frank Gallegos
Father Héctor Gallego
Gabriel 'G-Rod' Rodriguez
Sinaloa Cartel Leader
Jesse Wang
Bo Xilai
Brian Yang
Arresting Officer #1
Guido Föhrweißer
Mossack Fonseca Employee #2
Juan Monsalvez
Panama Agent
Ricardo Chacon
Uniformed Panama Agent
Frank Trigg
Panama Arresting Agent #2
Eddie J. Fernandez
Panama Arresting Agent #4
Eric Michael Cole
Worker (uncredited)
Brad Einhorn
Property Master
Randall Balsmeyer
Title Designer
Steven Soderbergh
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Ellen Mirojnick
Costume Design
Marie Larkin
Hair Department Head
Charles Croughwell
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Annie Ellis
Stunts
Clay Cullen
Stunts
Debbie Evans
Stunts
Diane Peterson
Stunts
Donna Evans
Stunts
Eliza Coleman
Stunts
George Fisher
Stunts
Hannah Betts
Stunts
Katie Rowe
Stunts
Mark Miscione
Stunts
Rick Avery
Stunts
Sandra Lee Gimpel
Stunts
Simon Rhee
Stunts
Kevin Huie
Additional Second Assistant Director
Steven Soderbergh
Director
Nat Jencks
Colorist
Steven Soderbergh
Editor
Carmen Cuba
Casting
Adam Pincus
Executive Producer
Douglas Urbanski
Executive Producer
Jake Bernstein
Executive Producer
Michael Bloom
Executive Producer
Michael Polaire
Executive Producer
Gregory Jacobs
Producer
Lawrence Grey
Producer
Michael Sugar
Producer
Scott Z. Burns
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Michael Polaire
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Chris Navarro
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David Holmes
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Larry Blake
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