Robert Allen, a newcomer to the Texas oil business and a professional schemer, gets himself caught up in a situation that he may not find easy to get out of.
John works as a bike courier in Berlin, living an ordinary life on a small budget. One day, some Italian lawyers tell him that he is the solitary heir to one trillion dollars. This wealth acxumulated over the last 500 years and makes him the richest person in the world. But the money comes with a prophecy and an impossible task for John...
Set in Kuwait in 1988, two women making their way in the boys club of the Kuwait Stock Exchange, on the eve of Saddam Hussein's invasion of the country.
First screened on BBC in 2001, The Way We Live Now will surprise those who know Anthony Trollope through the subtleties of his Barsetshire novels. This story of ambition centers around Augustus Melmotte, an Austrian Jewish financier who takes the London money markets and social scene by storm in his efforts to become an "English country gentleman." His rise and fall is followed with remorseless logic by Trollope, and David Yates's direction keeps this in focus against a wealth of subplots and character interaction.
The cast is a strong one, with David Suchet's Melmotte gripping in his recklessness, climaxing in the theatrical magnificence of his departure in disgrace from the House of Commons. Shirley Henderson is magnetic as his put-upon daughter Marie, courted by the cream-of-society bachelors for her dowry rather than her person.