"Meet the 1%"
Short film drama starring Hartley Sawyer and Wilson Cleveland that takes place over the course of a contentious live television interview between a Wall Street executive and a financial journalist.
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The people behind it
Wilson Cleveland
James Locke
Hartley Sawyer
Scott Angelus
Lewis Raymond Taylor
Actor
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