*In select theaters on 9/27 and on Netflix 10/18
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Synopsis
When her idyllic vacation takes an unthinkable turn, Ellen Martin
(Academy Award winner Meryl Streep) begins investigating a fake insurance policy, only to find herself down a rabbit hole of questionable dealings that can be linked to a Panama City law firm and its vested interest in helping the world’s wealthiest citizens
amass even larger fortunes. The charming — and very well-dressed — founding partners J rgen Mossack (Academy Award winner Gary Oldman) and Ram n Fonseca (Golden Globe nominee Antonio Banderas) are experts in the seductive ways shell companies and offshore
accounts help the rich and powerful prosper. They are about to show us that Ellen’s predicament only hints at the tax evasion, bribery and other illicit absurdities that the super wealthy indulge in to support the world’s corrupt financial system.
Zipping through a kaleidoscope of comic detours in China, Mexico,
Africa (via Los Angeles) and the Caribbean en route to 2016’s Panama Papers publication — where journalists revealed the secret, leaked documents of Mossack Fonseca’s high-profile patrons — THE LAUNDROMAT is directed by Academy Award winner Steven Soderbergh
(Ocean’s Eleven, Magic Mike, High Flying Bird) with a screenplay by Scott Z. Burns (The Informant!, The Report), adapted from “Secrecy World” by Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Jake Bernstein. The film is produced by Lawrence Grey, Gregory Jacobs,
Michael Sugar and Burns with a cast that includes Jeffrey Wright, Melissa Rauch, Jeff Michalski, Jane Morris, Robert Patrick, David Schwimmer, Cristela Alonzo, Larry Clarke, Will Forte, Chris Parnell, Nonso Anozie, Larry Wilmore, Jessica Allain, Nikki Amuka-Bird,
Matthias Schoenaerts, Rosalind Chao, Kunjue Li, Ming Lo, with James Cromwell and Sharon Stone.
Directed by:
Steven Soderbergh
Produced by:
Lawrence Grey, Gregory Jacobs, Michael Sugar, Scott Z. Burns
Executive Producers:
Michael Polaire, Douglas Urbanski, Ben Everard, Michael Bloom, Adam Pincus, Jake Bernstein
Written by:
Scott Z. Burns
Based on “Secrecy World: Inside the Panama Papers
Investigation of Illicit Money Networks and the Global Elite” by Jake Bernstein
Cast: Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman, Antonio Banderas, Jeffrey Wright, Melissa Rauch, Jeff Michalski, Jane Morris, Robert Patrick, David Schwimmer, Cristela
Alonzo, Larry Clarke, Will Forte, Chris Parnell, Nonso Anozie, Larry Wilmore, Jessica Allain, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Matthias Schoenaerts, Rosalind Chao, Kunjue Li, Ming Lo, with James Cromwell and Sharon Stone