Norman Oppenheimer (Richard Gere) lives a lonely life in the margins of New York City power and money, and strives to be everyones friend. His incessant networking leads him nowhere until he ends up befriending a young but charismatic politician, Micha Eshel (Lior Ashkenazi), at a low point in his life. Three years later, the politician becomes the Prime Minister of Israel. Norman uses Eshels name to leverage his biggest deal ever: a series of quid pro quo transactions linking the Prime Minister to Normans nephew (Michael Sheen), a rabbi (Steve Buscemi), a mogul (Harris Yulin), his assistant (Dan Stevens) and a treasury official from the Ivory Coast. Normans plans soon go awry, creating the potential for an international catastrophe he must struggle to prevent. Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer is a comedic and compassionate drama of a man whose downfall is rooted in a human frailty all too easy to forgivea need to matter.
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1026484001
Locations:
GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)
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