SYNOPSIS
Breaking the Bank. Multiple Golden Globe® and Emmy® award winner Kelsey Grammer stars alongside three time BAFTA® nominee Tamsin Greig and British Comedy Award nominee Mathew Horne in BREAKING THE BANK, a quintessentially English comedy about Charles Bunbury, an affable but bumbling chairman of a two hundred year old bank, Tuftons.
Discovering a rogue trader (Mathew Horne – Gavin & Stacey) has left the bank in serious financial trouble with rival American and Japanese banks circling like sharks, Charles (Kelsey Grammer – Frasier, Cheers) needs to attempt to secure the future of Tuftons. The only problem is Charles knows nothing about banking…
So when he puts everything on the line in a risky gamble, he ends up breaking the bank, losing his wife Penelope’s (Tamsin Greig – Black Books, Green Wing) family fortune and her in the process.
At rock bottom, Charles’ only hope of saving the bank and winning Penelope back is a homeless, self-trained financial wizard named Oscar (Pearce Quigley – Detectorists), the faint possibility of help from his estranged, anti-capitalist daughter Annabel (Sonya Cassidy – Olympus) and his dog, Taxi.
It’s not much of a team, and they don’t have much of a plan. So it’s probably just as well that Charles doesn’t understand how shorting and hedging might win him the day. But then again, he never did…