{"id":16057,"date":"2023-11-30T21:00:01","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T02:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=16057"},"modified":"2023-11-29T07:49:21","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T12:49:21","slug":"abacus-small-enough-to-jail-2016-steve-james","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/16057","title":{"rendered":"Abacus: Small Enough to Jail (2016, Steve James)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back-story catchup (it&#8217;s clear what point in time the film crew joined the story) then we follow a court case against a NYC family bank in the aftermath of the financial crisis, from the POV of the defenders.  They&#8217;re not accused of subprime lending, but selling loans with improper paperwork and taking kickbacks from customers, and the state decided to make a (probably racist) example of them, trying\/failing to prove the corruption went higher than some bad-egg loan officers.  Good story, decent doc &#8211; oscar-nominated alongside <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/11922\">Strong Island<\/a><\/em> and <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/12492\">Faces Places<\/a><\/em>.  Chicago critics gave it their best doc award, so James rewarded them by making his next doc there: the heartwarming success story of, uh-oh, Lori Lightfoot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back-story catchup (it&#8217;s clear what point in time the film crew joined the story) then we follow a court case against a NYC family bank in the aftermath of the financial crisis, from the POV of the defenders. They&#8217;re not accused of subprime lending, but selling loans with improper paperwork and taking kickbacks from customers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,1939,93,361,2469,2245],"class_list":["post-16057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-courtroom","tag-documentary","tag-new-york","tag-steve-james","tag-true-false"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16057"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16082,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16057\/revisions\/16082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}