REVIEW: MACKIE LEADS A LITTLE-KNOWN STORY IN ‘THE BANKER’
Mar 28, 2020
3 minutes
“The Banker ” is an odd title for this film. It has the effect of underselling a fascinating story about a black business savant that was inspired by real events. In the 1950s and early 1960s, Bernard Garrett (Anthony Mackie) became a real estate mogul in Los Angeles and (eventually) the owner of a bank in his Texas hometown at a time when all the cards were stacked against him. At the very least, “The Banker” doesn’t
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