Richard Gere in Arbitrage as Robert Miller, is one of those ultra-rich, smarter-than-everyone-else Wall Street-type. Quite obssesed wtih doing business & minting money had an unique approach to business. When everyone else buys, he sells. And he always makes the right move - except for when he doesn't, a move that goes awfuly worng spiralling hin down to the abyss.
Finding himself in a situation that, Miller's only hope to save himself, and his investors, from ruin is the pending sale of his firm. Unfortunately, he has also been playing it fast and compounding his problem because of his own infidelity loose in his personal life which suddenly unravels in a disastrous way threatening not only the sale but his marriage and his freedom.
Finding himself investigated by Detective Michael Bryer for homocide and in order to save his neck he has to rely on Jimmy Grant, the son of a long-term employee, to hold fast to a lie in spite of the massive pressure being brought to bear on him, of course for the pay back time.