Is George Clooney just too darn handsome to play the Jim Cramer-like character in “Money Monster,” the newest Hollywood take-down of Wall Street? In the trailer, Clooney plays the hyperactive devil pushing stocks on a TV program big on antics and weak on research. His producer is the ever-lovely Julia Roberts who coaches Clooney through a dangerous confrontation with a gun-wielding young man foolish enough to invest all he had into a stock Clooney’s character had recommended.
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“Money Monster” opens in theaters this spring.