"Billionaire Boys Club"

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While the month of October is usually all about the scary and fun Halloween movies, its good to take a step back and recognize the other genres. Though this movie has something just as scary as monsters, greed. Greed has a way of taking ahold and turning you into something that you don't even recognize, and in the 1980's that's just what happened to a few individuals that found out wealth comes with a price.

High school friends Joe Hunt (Ansel Elgort) and Dean Karny (Taron Egerton) cross paths with each other in the early 1980's in L.A. finding their lives have not changed much since their days of high school of being charity kids in a wealthy school. Though despite Joe's lack of wealth, he's gifted with a head for business and comes up with a "get rich quick" idea that Dean talks him into doing with a loan of one of their rich high school friend's money. This desperate act evolves into the B.B.C. as they talk the wealthy into investing including Ron Levin (Kevin Spacey) a blunt billionaire who takes the boys under his wing as what becomes known as the Billionaire Boys Club expands into a corporation giving Joe and Dean the high life they always dreamed of and Joe the courage to pursue his love interest Sydney Evans (Emma Roberts). Yet Joe and Dean learn quickly that wealth has its rises and falls when an investor double crosses them taking them down a path that will spiral out of control making them do the unthinkable and will become one of the biggest scandals the 20th century has ever seen.

Exciting and darkly sinister. "Billionaire Boys Club" paints a disturbing picture of how wealth and power can take good people and create greed-hungry monsters and shake a person's morality to their core. Elgort and Egerton play the young men who had it all and lost it in one foul swoop bring out raw emotion along with the talented Kevin Spacey playing the arrogant and sleazy Ron Levin who shows us the result of wealth and greed and what one is willing to do for both. A five G.M.Star performance of this stranger than fiction true story with a valuable lesson to all looking to seek their fortune that if you're not willing to pay the price, you should keep your soul and your checkbook safely tucked away.

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 "Billionaire Boys Club" is now available at Redbox and where movie are sold/streamed.

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