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  • Magnolia Pictures

Christopher Frizzelle approves:

If you have only a passing understanding of what happened to New York attorney general and then governor Eliot Spitzer—prosecuted prostitution rings, then got busted patronizing a prostitution ring—you may have no sense of how mysterious the story really is, how beside the point all the things you know are. Way more interesting: the murky power-broker politics and the unlikeliness of the Justice Department's official version of how they caught him.

When Spitzer became attorney general of New York in 1999, he didn't want to just enforce the law, he wanted to (according to the narrator) "use the law to change the way society worked"—on issues ranging from the environment to gender equality to investment-industry reform. Author Peter Elkind says, "The job had been a second-tier position—it had been focused on regulating crooked car dealers, and Eliot Spitzer focused on Wall Street, the biggest guys around, and Spitzer's premise, which was right, was that Wall Street can't be left to regulate itself or terrible things will happen."

Read the full review HERE.

Also, you guys's comments are weird:

Sorry, Frizzelle, but you didn't event skim the surface here.

Dude, you set up the premise for a great story and then dropped the ball and tripped on it.

UM, GEE, if only there was a way for you to find out the rest of what happens in the movie Client 9!!! Shame on Christopher for not transcribing the entire film for you!