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During an interview with the stars of the Hollywood’s latest anti-capitalist screed, Money Monster, on Friday’s NBC Today, correspondent Keir Simmons summed up the plot of the film: “In the movie, [George] Clooney is forced to wear an explosive vest by British rising star Jack O'Connell. Who lost his dead mother's money on stocks.”
Clooney plays a financial journalist with a uncanny resemblance to CNBC Mad Money host Jim Cramer and is held hostage by a man attempting to get answers about why he lost all his money in a bad investment. Simmons noted: “This guy is a terrorist, who you end up feeling sympathy for.”