“Human Capital” has returned home in a sense, in that American novelist Stephen Amidon’s 2004 book was made into a very well-received Italian film by Paolo Virzi in 2013, and now Marc Meyers’ U.S. …
“Human Capital” has returned home in a sense, in that American novelist Stephen Amidon’s 2004 book was made into a very well-received Italian film by Paolo Virzi in 2013, and now’ U.S. feature is based on both prior incarnations. There’s no reason it shouldn’t work again in what is, after all, its original setting.
Trouble is, this is the kind of enterprise devised by already rich people to further enrich one another. While assuring Quint otherwise, Drew doesn’t have the ready cash to make even the minimum required contribution of $300,000. But convinced he’s onto a “sure thing,” he falsifies his finances to get a high-interest loan. This could turn out to be a very bad idea — and needless to say, it does.
The events are related a third and final time from the viewpoint of Shannon, a somewhat bratty, sullen looker still resentful over her mother’s long-ago abandonment and Ronnie’s arrival. The hit-and-run mishap now takes center stage as the core plot mystery.
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