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The Banker, the film directed by George Nolfi, follows the true story of the first two African American bankers in the United States. We are in the 1950s, in a climate dominated by strong racial prejudice, Bernard Garrett (Anthony Mackie) and Joe Morris (Samuel L. Jackson), two skilled African American entrepreneurs, decide to buy different real estate properties. To avoid problems with the institutions, the two appoint a white working class, Matt Steiner (Nicholas Hoult), to head their company, who will take care of their business, while the two pretend to be a driver and the other caretaker. , they will continue to work undercover to grow their real estate empire. Garrett and Morris, they won't stop there. As a concrete sign of protest against a system that tends to support only white people in business, they will implement a new risky plan that will make history. In fact, they will aim at the acquisition of a bank with the aim of making money loans also to black citizens, thus helping other African Americans to pursue their American dream.