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Wednesday, May 7th, 2025 5:25 AM

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Help Finding a 90s Corporate Thriller with Unique Ending

I'm desperately trying to locate a movie I watched on TV before 1997. I only caught the ending, but it made a lasting impression on me. Here are the specific details I remember: Plot Details: The protagonist becomes chairman of a company but falls into a series of conspiracies. People he trusted betray him, including a woman he thought he could trust. At one point, he hides at this woman's house, but she waits until he's asleep and brings back a hitman to kill him. What makes this film unique is how the protagonist handles the situation: He senses something wrong and hides behind curtains with a golf club The hitman enters and shoots at the bed with a silenced gun (actually hitting a pillow decoy) The protagonist manages to defeat the hitman with the golf club After this incident, he turns the woman in to the police, but she is soon mysteriously silenced while in police custody. The ending is particularly memorable: The protagonist sells all his company shares He specifically asks a director to return a symbolic coin that was transferred earlier He contacts a female reporter who had wanted to interview him On the way to the airport, he tells her everything that happened Before boarding, the reporter asks one last question: "What do you most want to do now?" The man smiles and answers: "Go home." What I Know: Watched before 1997 on television Only saw the ending Likely a corporate thriller/conspiracy film Professional production, not a B-movie The golf club behind curtains, silencer, pillow decoy, police station murder, symbolic coin, and airport "go home" ending are the most distinctive elements This combination of plot elements seems incredibly unique, but I've been unable to identify the film despite extensive searching. Any help would be greatly appreciated! This has been driving me crazy for years. Thank you in advance to anyone who can help solve this mystery!

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Could be: "Noble House" (1988) mini-series with Pierce Brosnan? "Ian Struan Dunross is chairman of Struan & Company, the oldest and largest of the British-East Asia trading companies. To the Chinese, that also makes him "Tai-Pan" ("supreme leader") of the "Noble House". Unfortunately, with his power, he inherits ancient promises, dark secrets, and deep financial problems on a small island full of people, who want to see Struan fall, so they can become the Noble House. Dunross' worst enemy is the vicious Quillan Gornt, a lesser tai-pan, and he's doing everything in his power to bring the Noble House to ruin. Drawn into the fight between Gornt and Dunross, is an upstart American billionaire, who tries to gain a foothold on the Hong Kong market, and has made a deal to steal something that will give him power, even over the Noble House. Unfortunately, that something has fallen into the hands of a powerful Chinese overlord. "Everybody was watching (and cheating on) everybody." Who will succeed in the end?"