Film #41 among my 52 Films by Women 2017
For her sophomore feature film, director Meera Menon leaves comedy behind and brings us a modern corporate drama, full of financial intrigues and the kind of corruption we've come to associate with business-based potboilers. The star here is Anna Gunn playing a senior investment banker named Naomi Bishop, who specializes in taking private companies public -- the so-called "She-Wolf of Wall Street."
Despite her brilliant track record, most recently Bishop under-priced an IPO and lost the underwriting to another company that made a killing in the public offering. At an alumni event, she meets a former classmate, lesbian Samantha Ryan (Alysia Reiner), who works as a public attorney. Ryan is tasked…