The film explores the experience of a large investment banker (Anna Gunn). In this period he is trying to sail the Wall Street world, while Prosecutor Alicia Rainer is watching the corrupt practices that are already taking place and threatening to disrupt her career over time.
It's hard to think of a movie that passes the Bechdel Test with more flying colours than this smart and entertaining corporate thriller about female investment bankers on Wall Street.
The film is humanist rather than overtly feminist, since it shows the high personal cost of trading conscience for filthy lucre. But it's certainly novel to have a financial drama led by women.
Equity is a bizarre movie that manages the near-impossible feat of making a financial drama from an entirely female point of view without being in the slightest bit feminist.
