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The Big Short (2015)

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Biography , Comedy , Drama , History

Christian Bale , Steve Carell , Ryan Gosling , Rudy Eisenzopf , Casey Groves , Charlie Talbert , Harold Gervais , Maria Frangos , Hunter Burke ,
Bernard Hocke , Shauna Rappold , Brandon Stacy , Aiden Flowers , Peter Epstein , Anthony Marble , Silas Cooper

Adam McKay
IMDB

130

2015

Three separate but parallel stories of the U.S mortgage housing crisis of 2005 are told. Michael Burry| an eccentric ex-physician turned one-eyed Scion Capital hedge
fund manager| has traded traditional office attire for shorts| bare feet and a Supercuts haircut. He believes that the US housing market is built on a bubble that
will burst within the next few years. Autonomy within the company allows Burry to do largely as he pleases| so Burry proceeds to bet against the housing market with
the banks| who are more than happy to accept his proposal for something that has never happened in American history. The banks believe that Burry is a crackpot and
therefore are confident in that they will win the deal. Jared Vennett with Deutschebank gets wind of what Burry is doing and| as an investor believes he too can cash
in on Burry's beliefs. An errant telephone call to FrontPoint Partners gets this information into the hands of Mark Baum| an idealist who is fed up with the
corruption in the ...


The Big Short approaches a serious, complicated subject with an impressive attention to detail -- and manages to deliver a well-acted, scathingly funny indictment of
its real-life villains in the bargain.