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The Big Short
Why this pick
Like Margin Call, it turns the financial crisis into escalating institutional dread, but through a more kinetic, darkly comic multi-perspective structure.
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MOVIE2011 1h 47m USA
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Why this pick
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The Company Men
Why this pick
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The Insider
Why this pick
Its patient, nocturnal precision and morally fraught conversations create the same feeling of individuals confronting the machinery of a powerful institution.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
During the 2008 financial crisis, investment bankers and analysts at a top firm react over the course of a single day, to a downfall that could prove to be unprecedented.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Kevin Spacey
Sam Rogers
Zachary Quinto
Peter Sullivan
Jeremy Irons
John Tuld
Paul Bettany
Will Emerson
Simon Baker
Jared Cohen
Penn Badgley
Seth Bregman
Demi Moore
Sarah Robertson
Stanley Tucci
Eric Dale