尼克（伊万·麦克格雷格 Ewan McGregor 饰）虽然身为银行的小小职员，但他从未放弃过升职发财的梦想。在一次外派工作中，尼克结识了漂亮迷人的莉莎（安娜·弗莱尔 Anna Friel 饰），坠入情网的两人很快就结为夫妻，开始了幸福的生活。一次偶然中，尼克发现了银行系统的漏洞，而这个漏洞使得他能够从中牟利，在利用这个漏洞度过一次经济危机后，莉莎发现了他的不轨行为。 虽然向妻子保证过不再利用这个漏洞，但在巨大的利益面前，尼克无法控制自己。尼克的工作做得越来越好，职位越来越高，但与此同时，他肩上的压力也越来越大。常在河边走哪有不湿鞋，当错误无法盖过错误，谎言无法掩饰谎言之时，便是尼克付出代价的时刻。Ambitious, wide-eyed boy Nick Leeson is determined to rise in the world and be more than a simple bank clerk. When his employers, Barings Bank, offer him the opportunity to go to Jakarta to sort out a problem that nobody else wants, he seizes the opportunity with both hands. In Jakarta he meets and marries Lisa and together they go to Singapore when the bank offers him the job of setting up their future options trading operation. To save money the bank allows Nick to operate both the floor trading and the back office facilities and force him to employ cheap, unskilled staff. His first year of trading is a big success and he makes large profits for the bank even though he has illegally broken trading rules and secretly covered up losses. Given more freedom, even more money and continuing unchecked, Nick starts to make losses and again attempts to trade out of them but this time he comes unstuck as his illegal trading generates even bigger losses. After the death of his unborn child Nick completely loses control and gambles without restraint with other people's money leading inevitably to a complete financial meltdown and the bankruptcy of the bank.
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