Movie Review: Ethan Hawke leads a tense, Depression-era thriller in ‘The Weight’
Ethan Hawke stars in the Depression-era thriller 'The Weight.' Set in 1933, the film's plot is framed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s executive order banning the hoarding of gold. The movie is described as a tense and earthy thriller.
In April 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order banning the hoarding of gold and requiring Americans to deliver excess quantities to a Federal Reserve Bank by that May. The policy isn’t the subject of much discussion in the tense and earthy thriller “The Weight,” but it does set the stage for a...
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