James Cromwell

Jurgen Mossack (Gary Oldman) and Ramón Fonseca (Antonio Banderas) introduce themselves and the concept and system of money laundering. Mossack and Fonseca act as narrators for three stories of people around the world that are affected by the company Mossack Fonseca. While the story has been somewhat fictionalized, the names of the law firm at the center of the scandal, along with those of its founders, were not. Neither were the names and roles of individuals involved in the Wang Lijun incident changed. The narrators says that one morning everything changed as their story was on all the media. So, they decided to tell a few stories of their own. All the stories are about money. Fonseca says that before money there was only the barter system, but there were limits to this system. Money was the agreed upon medium of exchange. It could be gold or even a piece of paper. The pieces of paper are the promise of value, and in turn they generated more paper such as credit. Credit meant that one could buy and own things, even if they didn't have the money right then. Credit is the future tense in the language of money. But now, there is more money then ever before and it has many more names such as commodities, stocks, loans, funds, funds of funds, bonds, futures, equity, derivatives, Securitized debt, financial instruments, shorts, margin calls, all invisible words. Ellen Martin (Meryl Streep) and her husband Joe (James Cromwell) are on a pleasure boat at Lake George, New York when it suddenly capsizes due to a rogue wave that took the small boat by surprise, drowning Joe. There were many tourists on the pleasure boat and the accident had 21 casualties. Ellen and Joe celebrated their honeymoon at Niagara Falls, and they were on their way back there on the day they lost Joe. Joe had ruby pendant in his pocket which he wanted to give to Ellen at the falls, on occasion of their 40th anniversary. When Ellen tries to get compensation from the boating company for Joe's death, she is unable to because the reinsurance company that the boat companies' owner and his son Matthew (David Schwimmer) bought their policy from, was sold to another company based out of Nevis (Panama) that is actually a trust to one of Mossack's shell companies and is under investigation by the IRS for fraud. Matthew bought insurance from Global Property Owners Association, who got converted into Monarch. Monarch itself is insured by a firm called United. Initially the response of Mossack's firm United to Matthew is that their insurance policy had lapsed prior to the accident. Manager of the trust Malchus is paid $15 per signature by Mossack to act as the Director, without being involved in the operations of the firm. Matthew is worried that the victims will now come after them for claims. Ellen & Matthew's attempts to contact Mossack and the Nevis-based company are unsuccessful. When the insurance company refuses to pay, Matthew still makes an attempt to provide some financial settlement to the victims, with the limited means at his disposal. Ellen was planning to buy an apartment in Vegas with the settlement money. Her lawyer informs her that the insurance company refused to pay and advises her to take the amount offered by Matthew. Ellen travels to Nevis herself to confront the manager of the trust, Malchus Boncamper (Jeffrey Wright). When Ellen bumps into Malchus, not knowing who he is, she asks questions about his firm's location, but he tricks and evades her and escapes to Miami only to be caught and arrested by IRS Agents at Miami's airport. As soon as Malchus is arrested, Mossack back dates his recent transactions and selects another random employee to become of owner of 25,000 of his group/trust companies. Mossack provides shell services to all Wealth management desks of banks and has basically helped setup 240,000 shell firms globally, including for members of the Mexican drug cartels. The shell companies hold the assets for their owners, but has no employees, no office, and only an email ID and a post office box in a country where the laws are favorable to their client's financial goals. The second story is about Simone (Jessica Allain), the daughter of an African billionaire, Charles (Nonso Anozie), who discovers that her best friend is having an affair with her father. In order to prevent Simone from telling her mother about the affair, Charles offers her shares from one of his investment companies that are supposedly worth $20 million. She accepts his offer, but when she travels to Mossack's offices in Panama City to claim ownership of the shares, they turn out to be worthless as they are actually part of a shell company under Mossack that only existed on paper. The company was owned by another Mossack shell (itself presumably owned by Charles) that had recently emptied the company's bank account. The third story is a dramatization of part of the Wang Lijun incident, specifically the death of Neil Heywood. Neil (renamed "Maywood" (Matthias Schoenaerts)), is an intermediary for wealthy Chinese looking to funnel money abroad. He visits a Chongqing hotel to meet Gu Kailai (Rosalind Chao). He demands and pressures Gu for a much higher price if he is to continue to launder money for her family through one of Mossack's shell companies. Gu retaliates by murdering Maywood through poisoning the drinks that she serves him. She discloses the incident and reports Maywood to a party official Chongqing police chief Wang Lijun (Ming Lo) who secretly records the conversation and reports her. The story ends with Gu and her husband Bo Xilai (Jesse Wang) arrested for corruption and for Maywood's murder. The film ends with the leaks of the Panama Papers and subsequent police raids on Mossack Fonseca, the brief imprisonment of Mossack and Fonseca, and the shutdown of the firm. However, the two, as well as Meryl Streep herself acting out of character, remind viewers that there are still many such companies in existence and the practice of money laundering and corruption through fake trusts and shell companies based in tax havens is still widespread. Streep makes a clear and bold statement about the immediate need for campaign finance reforms in the US before adopting the Statue of Liberty's pose..

Owen Grady and Claire Dearing return to Jurassic World to rescue dinosaurs from a live volcano. However, they encounter a terrifying new breed of gigantic dinosaurs.

Spirit (Matt Damon) is a young stallion who leads the Cimarron herd. He enjoys his freedom, as when he races with an eagle, but he also remembers his responsibilities, as when he saves two foals from being attacked by a cougar. One night he sees a campfire in the distance and goes to investigate, despite his mother wanting him to stay. When he reaches the camp, horses tied nearby encourage him to leave, but he wants to know who's there. His nosing causes the men to wake up and chase him, eventually catching him as his mother and herd watch from a nearby cliff. His mother tries to go to him, but he urges her and the herd to flee, which they do. Spirit is taken to an army fort, where he defies all their efforts to brand, shoe, and break him. He and a Colonel (James Cromwell) have taken an instant dislike to each other, so the Colonel orders Spirit to be tied to a post for three days with no food or water. While he is tied, a young Lakota brave named Little Creek (Daniel Studi) is brought in and tied to another post. That night, his friends throw him a dagger, which he conceals from the soldiers as they file out at dawn on the third day. The Colonel himself attempts to ride Spirit, who, despite his best efforts, cannot throw him and appears to give up, exhausted. The Colonel is very pleased with himself and rides Spirit around the corral, boasting. But Spirit is merely regaining his strength and, in a final show of defiance, grabs the reins, breaks the saddle, and tosses the Colonel off his back. The Colonel is furious and attempts to shoot Spirit, but Little Creek cuts himself free and shoves the gun away. The two then escape, taking all the other horses with them in the process. Once free, Little Creek calls his own horse, a beautiful paint mare named Rain, and jumps onto her. Spirit is momentarily distracted and is caught again, this time by the Lakota. At the Lakota's camp, Spirit is puzzled by Rain and Little Creek's relationship, wondering why a horse would ever accept a human. After a failed attempt to ride Spirit, Little Creek ties Spirit and Rain together and lets them loose. Spirit thinks he's free and starts to run off, but Rain stands firm. He relents and lets her show him around her world, falling for her in the process, but still longing to be free. He starts to respect Little Creek too, although he still won't let him on his back. Little Creek finally realizes that no one should ever ride Spirit and sets him free, knowing that the wild is where he belongs. Spirit is ecstatic and immediately finds Rain, wanting her to come with him. But even though she loves him, she feels a kinship with Little Creek and wants to stay with him. While they are together, the Colonel and his men attack the Lakota camp and Rain leaves to help Little Creek, with Spirit hot on her heels trying to stop her. After losing sight of her for a moment he finally spots her, with Little Creek on her back, running toward the Colonel, who levels a gun at them. Rain rears and is shot, with both her and Little Creek falling into a raging river. Little Creek clings to a rock and is almost shot as well, but Spirit rams the Colonel's horse, saving him, and the two share a brief look before Spirit runs off to save Rain, who has been swept away by the current. Although he reaches her, he cannot swim against the rapids and the two are swept over a waterfall. Spirit survives and finds Rain lying on a bank, barely alive. He stays with her all night and is captured by the army again in the morning. They leave Rain, believing that she's not going to make it, and she is found by Little Creek. Little Creek is amazed that Spirit saved his life and pursues the train he is loaded on. Spirit is despondent and on the verge of giving up when the swirling snow outside the car reminds him of his herd and he realizes that he can't give up and must get back to them. Spirit and other horses are used by the railroad to move a steam engine up a steep mountain. Coming over the top, Spirit realizes that the railroad tracks are headed directly towards his homeland and that he must escape and stop them. Thinking quickly, he pretends to faint and, once he is released from his harness, frees the other horses. The engine tumbles down the mountain and smashes the railroad's base, with Spirit barely managing to outrun it. He thinks everything is all right until he realizes that the explosion started a forest fire. He runs but finds a large log in his path. He clears it, but a chain that was still around his neck catches on a branch and he is helpless until Little Creek appears and cuts him loose. The two escape the fire by jumping off a cliff into a river. The next morning, they have a joyful reunion which is cut short by the Colonel and his men finding them. Little Creek urges Spirit to run but he doubles back and pushes Little Creek onto his back, much to his surprise. Spirit runs into a canyon, and they manage to evade their pursuers, only to find themselves on a high plateau, the only way out being across a deep gorge. Spirit harnesses all his strength and makes a spectacular leap, flying across the chasm to safety. The soldiers arrive on the plateau and one of them attempts to shoot Spirit, but the Colonel grabs the gun. He and Spirit exchange nods of respect before the soldiers leave. The two friends celebrate, and Spirit allows Little Creek to ride him back to the Lakota camp. Upon arriving, Spirit is saddened because he does not see Rain, but Little Creek whistles and she appears, perfectly well. Little Creek says goodbye to Rain, realizing her place is with Spirit. He asks Spirit to take care of her, addressing him as "Spirit-who-could-not-be-broken". Although he has waited for this moment for a long time, Spirit finds the goodbye harder than he thought. He and Rain travel to his homeland and find his herd, and his mother, safe and sound. They gallop off, with Spirit and Rain in the lead, as the camera pans up to reveal horse-like clouds running across the sky.