**SPOILERS** A bit confusing film about about behind the scenes chicanery involving this government funded environmental investment and managing company called Atlantis Inc.
Atlantis' president and founder Jon Singer has been convicted of criminal negligence in the death of one of his volunteer workers a former Ego-Ranger Francine Dumbrowski. Singer had gotten an engineer's report of the property, which was to become Singer Park, warning him about dangerous toxins in the area; Instead of canceling the clean-up Singer gave the go-ahead. The clean-up resulted in not only Francine's death but that of her fellow Ego-Ranger Teresa Rodriguez as well.
Sentanced to a long stretch in the federal penitentiary Singer took the easy way out by popping something into his mouth, while behind bars, and dropping dead on the spot. This strange and shocking incident happened when Singer's co-partner and founder of Atlantis Inc. Lauren Marcus was talking to him about what to do with the company when he's sent up the river.
Lauren had been convalescing from a major nervous breakdown on her boat for some six years after Atlantis came under government scrutiny. Now recovered Lauren is faced with an even bigger problem, that's not going to help her recovery, in keeping the company afloat with it's top honcho, Jon Singer, no longer around to run it!
Just too hard to follow with among other strange happening in the film a Lazarus inspired scene and some very not so funny antics by Lauren's friend, a numbers and electronic whiz, Flush. The not so well wrapped together Flush seems to be on some kind of mind bending drug, LSD?, during the entire movie!
There's also the third member of the trio of the Atlantis Inc. founders Barry who's involved in something with the late Jon Singer that doesn't come out until late in the film. It's that something that's the big surprise in the movie and almost drives the now recovering Lauren into having yet another major nervous breakdown.
****SPOILER ALERT***Barry meanwhile, without his partner Lauren knowing about it, has been shacking up with Atlantis' attorney Samantha Jacobson and feeding her all kinds of conflicting information about the company that effects her ability to do her job right. Barry's been using, without her knowledge, Samantha to get the company bankrupted so that he and his secret and silent partner, guess who, can end up cleaning up by cashing in and selling off Atlantis, piece by piece, to it's competition.
The movie moves at almost a snails pace with the friendly and helpful FBI agent Guy getting Lauren all the vital information, the engineer's report, that will keep Atlantis from folding . The very vital as well as secret engineer's report in the end screws those who are trying to screw Lauren out of her input in the company by getting her voted off the board of directors.
In the end Lauren and her dizzy friend Flush, together with FBI Agent Guy, get the goods on her back-stabbing so-called friends in Atlantis who were so into their own back-stabbing, of themselves, that they never saw it coming. Lauren & Flush are seen dancing in the streets of NYC to the country & western music of "Dusty Turnaround", sung by Brooklyn born Lizzie West, knowing that after suffering through it for almost 90 excruciating minutes that "The Atlantis Conspiracy" has mercifully come to an end.
P.S The cute smart and very personable Adrienne Shelly who played Atlantis attorney Samantha Jacobson was brutally murdered, at the age of 40, in her office apartment in NYC on the evening of November 1, 2006. Adrienne's on the loose and soon confessed murderer was caught by the NYPD a few days later.
Atlantis' president and founder Jon Singer has been convicted of criminal negligence in the death of one of his volunteer workers a former Ego-Ranger Francine Dumbrowski. Singer had gotten an engineer's report of the property, which was to become Singer Park, warning him about dangerous toxins in the area; Instead of canceling the clean-up Singer gave the go-ahead. The clean-up resulted in not only Francine's death but that of her fellow Ego-Ranger Teresa Rodriguez as well.
Sentanced to a long stretch in the federal penitentiary Singer took the easy way out by popping something into his mouth, while behind bars, and dropping dead on the spot. This strange and shocking incident happened when Singer's co-partner and founder of Atlantis Inc. Lauren Marcus was talking to him about what to do with the company when he's sent up the river.
Lauren had been convalescing from a major nervous breakdown on her boat for some six years after Atlantis came under government scrutiny. Now recovered Lauren is faced with an even bigger problem, that's not going to help her recovery, in keeping the company afloat with it's top honcho, Jon Singer, no longer around to run it!
Just too hard to follow with among other strange happening in the film a Lazarus inspired scene and some very not so funny antics by Lauren's friend, a numbers and electronic whiz, Flush. The not so well wrapped together Flush seems to be on some kind of mind bending drug, LSD?, during the entire movie!
There's also the third member of the trio of the Atlantis Inc. founders Barry who's involved in something with the late Jon Singer that doesn't come out until late in the film. It's that something that's the big surprise in the movie and almost drives the now recovering Lauren into having yet another major nervous breakdown.
****SPOILER ALERT***Barry meanwhile, without his partner Lauren knowing about it, has been shacking up with Atlantis' attorney Samantha Jacobson and feeding her all kinds of conflicting information about the company that effects her ability to do her job right. Barry's been using, without her knowledge, Samantha to get the company bankrupted so that he and his secret and silent partner, guess who, can end up cleaning up by cashing in and selling off Atlantis, piece by piece, to it's competition.
The movie moves at almost a snails pace with the friendly and helpful FBI agent Guy getting Lauren all the vital information, the engineer's report, that will keep Atlantis from folding . The very vital as well as secret engineer's report in the end screws those who are trying to screw Lauren out of her input in the company by getting her voted off the board of directors.
In the end Lauren and her dizzy friend Flush, together with FBI Agent Guy, get the goods on her back-stabbing so-called friends in Atlantis who were so into their own back-stabbing, of themselves, that they never saw it coming. Lauren & Flush are seen dancing in the streets of NYC to the country & western music of "Dusty Turnaround", sung by Brooklyn born Lizzie West, knowing that after suffering through it for almost 90 excruciating minutes that "The Atlantis Conspiracy" has mercifully come to an end.
P.S The cute smart and very personable Adrienne Shelly who played Atlantis attorney Samantha Jacobson was brutally murdered, at the age of 40, in her office apartment in NYC on the evening of November 1, 2006. Adrienne's on the loose and soon confessed murderer was caught by the NYPD a few days later.