Synopsis
An Arab oil organization devises a plan to wreck the world economy in order to cause anarchy and chaos.
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Cast
- Jane FondaLee Winters
- Kris KristoffersonHubbell Smith
- Hume CronynMaxwell Emery
- Josef SommerRoy Lefcourt
- Bob GuntonSal Naftari
- Ron FrazierGil Hovey
- Jodi LongBetsy Okamoto
- Marvin ChatinoverHenry Lipscomb
- Ira WheelerMr. Whitelaw
- Ahmed BoulaneStudent
Recommendations
- 75
TV Guide Magazine
Pakula again uses big-name stars to deliver a political message. This time around Fonda and Kristofferson are involved in the world of high finance that teeters on the brink of disaster when Arab countries threaten to pull their money from US banks instead of letting it "roll over." - 70
Time Out
Disconcerting in its kaleidoscopic shifts in tone, it's nevertheless too absorbing simply to dismiss. - 50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Miss Fonda has thought to make a thriller out of that unthrilling process. [12 Dec 1981] - 40
Variety
Although elegantly appointed and possessed of a provocative theme, Rollover is a fundamentally disappointing political-romantic thriller [from a story by David Shaber, Howard Kohn and David Weir] set in the rarified world of international high finance. - 40
Newsweek
Rollover wants to be a thriller, love story and economics lesson rolled into one, but in trying to do so much, it shortchanges each element. The screenplay (by David Shaber from a story by Shaber, Howard Kohn and David Weir) doesn't hang together. [14 Dec 1981, p.125] - 30
The New York Times
The dramatic possibilities of the material are weak at best, and its satirical underpinnings are nowhere to be found. As for the characters, they are either deeply unsympathetic or, when they resort to technical jargon for very long periods of time, incomprehensible. - 30
Washington Post
Lacking the necessary gusto and sexual chemistry, Rollover is doomed by an excess of huffing and puffing...Despite posh accessories and surroundings, Jane Fonda and leading man Kris Kristofferson seem oddly haggard as well as mismatched -- two rawboned impostors who can't believe in themselves as a dynamic, voluptuous erotic duo. Their skepticism is well-founded. [11 Dec 1981, p.C3] - 30
Washington Post
The movie insists that the fate of the world hangs on the actions of these people. If you buy that, you'll buy anything. [11 Dec 1981, p.31]
