Big cats and polar bears turn up on screen in Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer, Alex Gibney’s curious take on the former New York governor.
Sharks, too. The beasts are an amusing fixation for a documentary otherwise devoted to the former madams, New York politicos, PIs and ready-made Wall Street villains who fill out the front lines of Gibney’s Spitzer storyline—a self-proclaimed gesture toward some bestial duality at the center of the scandal.