Eric Purcell

Struggling actress Hedda Hopper can't get a break in Hollywood, even though an acquaintence of hers is the extremely powerful gossip monger Louella Parsons - maker and breaker of careers (and lives) through her daily syndicated newspaper column. The big movie moguls, fed up with Parson's power over their stars, decide to de-claw her by setting up gossip Hopper as a competitor in the rumour industry. What they couldn't forsee was that Hopper would become as big as Parsons -- and every bit as much of a pain. Based on the true life stories of two of the most powerful (and arguably dangerous) women of Hollywood's hay-day.

Wall Street, New York : en plein krach boursier de 2008, un jeune trader, Jacob Moore, est prêt à tout pour venger son mentor, que d'obscures tractations financières ont poussé au suicide. Il demande de l'aide à Gordon Gekko, le meilleur - et le pire - des gourous de la finance, qui vient de sortir de 20 ans de prison pour délit d'initié. Jacob va apprendre à ses dépens que Gekko reste un maître de la manipulation, et que l'argent ne dort jamais.