Rollover
Finally saw the movie Rollover after almost thirty-five years of wanting to; it was on Escape Network overnight. And it has officially become a part of the Hackett Continuum.
I'm sure you won't mind me spoiling it: at a World Trade Center investment bank, an heiress and her banker partner are eyewitnesses (and unwilling catalysts) to a diabolical scheme by a faction of the Saudi government, who (with help from inside men) engineer a massive panic on Wall Street, causing an existing recession to snowball into an all-out Great Depression.
So, this would go a long way to explaining the Hackett world--global economies often determine cycles of war and peace. Wealth breeds corruption; poverty breeds brutality.