The Phoenix (Gunnersbury) Affair

Synopsis

Jimmy Fox is a 17 year old that is drawn into the world of corporate espionage. The White Star company invades his and many other people's lives brutally and forever changes their view on the world. Nothing will ever be as it used to be.

This is the story of The Phoenix Affair.

Summary

Mr. Arthur Foster is the Head teacher of Phoenix (Gunnersbury) Catholic High School and he is addicted to gambling and he has run up some debts. Jimmy Fox is a relatively popular student in the school. He and his dad Michael Fox have been bribed/blackmailed into making Arthur Foster sell the school grounds.  They are very good grounds in central London and are meant to become grounds for a new shopping centre. Michael Fox is a lowly manager in the White Star company and he has been threatened with being sacked unless he manages to somehow make Foster agree to the sale of the school grounds. Jimmy Fox gets his hacker friends, offers them large amounts of money provided by White Star and gets them to break into the school finance network and make large amounts of money disappear, while leaving a trail of evidence that leads to Foster who has a motive for stealing the money as he is in debt. He is to become the scapegoat for the school finances fraud which would cause him to get sacked. Before the movie started, the corporation has offered money officially for the grounds to be bought, but they were refused. They the decided to bribe the board members but Arthur Foster is the last remaining opposing force.  He is the main force behind the keeping of the school grounds and he does it for the students. Over the course of the movie he becomes a good person as he gives up gambling and gets a loan and tries to pay of his debts,which means that he emerges as a good person at the end of the movie. He is killed at the end of the movie by Michael as the hacking scheme fails. The movie finishes with a shot of the machines driving onto the school grounds, signifying the success of the company. Michael is promoted. He comes home and is happy but he finds a letter from Jimmy that says he is disgusted with his father and he is leaving him. Michael will probably never hear from Jimmy again. There is a huge sense of hopelessness as there is no chance of ever getting evidence against White Star, the grounds being destroyed, and Michael’s involvement not suspected by anyone, which means he gets away with killing Foster. But there is some sense of a balance as Michael loses his son – probably forever.