SYNOPSIS
“The Big Hustle” is a three layered look at the crazy days that led up to the Financial Collapse of 2008. It is the story of a black borrower who wants to get his kids out of the projects and into a new home in the suburbs. He goes to a black mortgage broker for help. He is in luck as the broker has just signed a deal to do more business with an ambitious, white mortgage banker. They’ve agreed to
provide home mortgage lending to poor folks in Atlanta, GA. “The Big Hustle” shows how their scheme was hatched and how it worked. The show dramatizes how the broker and the banker “hustle” the borrowers into unfair deals that allow them to make money hand over fist. The banker and the broker succeed so much that they get new cars and huge bonuses. Ultimately, they go to a Las Vegas convention headlined by the President of the Bank.
The President is a Free Market Capitalist. He’s a Wall Street guy who has a plan for the bank. He’s got a plan for the guys. He’s got a master plan for everybody. If they would all just do what he says and keep selling his Sub-Prime loans to the masses. Keep selling them highly risky loans that can make him a multi-millionaire. If only he can convince the black broker to keep selling his crooked
sub-primes to the folks in the hood. Keep pushing them on to poor folks who the broker knows can’t afford them. Keep selling them loans until they blow up in the borrower’s face and force them into foreclosure. Which causes them to want revenge. Revenge that could lead to violence. Who will the audience side with? The bankers or the borrowers? That is the story of “The Big Hustle.”