Publish date: 2023-12-25

The Banker is a 2020 American period drama film directed, co-written, and produced by George Nolfi. The film stars Anthony Mackie, Nicholas Hoult, Nia Long, Jessie T. Usher, and Samuel L. Jackson. The story follows Joe Morris (Jackson) and Bernard Garrett (Mackie), two of the first African-American bankers in the United States.

Matt buys the bank, fronting for Bernard and Joe, but the local townspeople are extremely suspicious of this move. A bank executive tracks the records of the loans and discovers that they’re giving loans to black people, follows Matt and discovers that his partners are black, then threatens them with exposure which would cause “a run on the bank.” Matt persuades Joe and Bernard to purchase a second bank and put him in charge of it despite his inexperience.

Where is Matt Steiner now?

In 1965, Garrett and Morris were sentenced to three years for misapplying $189,000 in bank funds. They served nine months. Garrett started other businesses but none on the scale he had previously known. He died in a Los Angeles nursing home in 1999. His life is portrayed in the 2020 film, “The Banker.

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