tie Film Review: Arbitrage By: Peter Debruge January 22, 2012 A Green Room Films and TreeHouse Pictures presentation of a Parlay Films, LB Prods., Artina Films production in association with Alvernia Studios, Lucky Monkey Pictures. (International sales: WME, Los Angeles.) Produced by Laura Bickford, Kevin Turen, Justin Nappi, Robert Salerno. Executive producers, Brian Young, Mohammed Al Turki, Lisa Wilson, Stanislaw Tyczynski, Lauren Versel, Maria Teresea Arida, Ron Curtis. Directed, written by Nicholas Jarecki. Robert Miller Richard Gere Ellen Miller Susan Sarandon Det. Michael Bryer Tim Roth Brooke Miller Brit Marling Julie Cote Laetitia Casta Jimmy Grant Nate Parker In Hitchcock movies, innocent men struggle to clear their names. In "Arbitrage," the opposite is true: Billionaire hedge fund manager Robert Miller (Richard Gere) is guilty of fraud, infidelity and murder, but he walks free of consequence in a system fueled by money. If that cold business-as-usual philosophy sounds cynical, don't tell writer-director Nicholas Jarecki, who seems oddly nonjudgmental about the iffy morality in his high-toned narrative debut. "Arbitrage" never lets Miller squirm for long, whether cooking the books or covering up the accidental death of his mistress. Such smart, adult-targeted fare should pay dividends for the right distrib. Perhaps the clearest indication of Jarecki's forgiving stance toward Millers situation is his choice of Gere. It's easy to imagine any number of casting alternatives who might have come across considerably less huggable (Al Pacino was attached at one point), and yet, one of the film's points seems to be that ethical misconduct often goes hand-in-hand with charm. Another suggests that no transgression is so great that it can't be negotiated into absolution, especially when it comes to America's financial sector. Being a billionaire is high-stress work, which will come as news to no one who's either worked on Wall Street or