Richard Gere

Richard Gere cooks the books in "Arbitrage," an elegantly crafted potboiler that fires on all cylinders, giving the "Officer and a Gentlemen" star his juiciest role yet.Gere delivers his best performance to date as Robert Miller, a hedge fund magnate secretly on the brink of bankruptcy. In a shady move to make his company look profitable and enticing to potential buyers, Miller borrows half a billion dollars from an associate (played by director William Friedkin) to temporarily store in his accounts. With a sale pending, his associate demands his money back, against Miller's protests. Miller is then caught in a series of escalating nightmares, from an affair gone wrong to the looming merger deadline to becoming the target in a police investigation.Gere is superb at portraying the sliding scale of success. When things are going strong for Miller, Gere gives us a raucous, pompous performance of a man deifying himself. Gere really shines, though, as Miller comes close to losing everything...

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