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The film is based on the real-life experiences of Dave Fishwick. [3] It follows the story of a Burnley self-made millionaire who struggles to set up a community bank to help the town's local businesses to thrive. To do so, he must battle London's elite financial institutions and compete for the first banking licence in more than 150 years.
In 2023, the streamer released Bank of Dave, a movie based on Fishwick’s story with Rory Kinnear in the lead role, which immediately topped its UK most-viewed charts.
A subsequent episode, Bank of Dave: Fighting the Fat Cats, was broadcast in February 2013, [18] and won an award for the Best Feature/Factual Entertainment Programme at the 2013 British Academy Scotland Awards. [19] In mid-2020, Fishwick was approached by screenwriter Piers Ashworth, who was interested in making a film about his bank's story. [20]
Owning Mahowny is a 2003 Canadian film starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Minnie Driver, Maury Chaykin and John Hurt. The film is based on the true story of Brian Molony, a Toronto bank employee who embezzled more than $10 million to feed his gambling addiction. Owning Mahowny was named one of the ten best films of the year by critic Roger Ebert.
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The Bank Job is a 2008 heist thriller film directed by Roger Donaldson and written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais. It is based on the 1971 burglary of Lloyds Bank safety deposit boxes in Baker Street .
Based on a Robert Harris novel, the thriller "Conclave," starring Ralph Fiennes and Stanley Tucci, re-creates the secret process of electing a pope.
This is a list of films and miniseries that are based on actual events. All films on this list are from American production unless indicated otherwise.. True story films [1] gained popularity in the late 1980s and early 1990s, with the production of films based on actual events that first aired on CBS, ABC, and NBC.