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Abacus: Small Enough to Jail (2016)

88 min · Documentation, documentary film

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2025-09 to 2026-08

Directors

Steve James

The story

The documentary features interviews with the Sung family and other past and present Abacus employees, New York County District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. and his staff, and defense lawyers Kevin Puvalowski and Rusty Wing. The documentary also features some history on Abacus, inter-cut with scenes from It's a Wonderful Life—a source of founder/chairman Thomas Sung's inspiration as he founded the institution and steered it through a bank run in 2003.

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Bank

Genres

Documentation, documentary film

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