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The Big Short is a 2015 American biographical crime comedy-drama film directed and co-written by Adam McKay. Co-written by Charles Randolph, it is based on the 2010 book The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis showing how the 2007–2008 financial crisis was triggered by the United States housing bubble.
Mar 2, 2024 · Michael Burry made $100 million by predicting the housing market crash in The Big Short. Mark Baum, based on Steve Eisman, earned $1 billion from the market crash depicted in the film. Jared Vennett, based on Greg Lippmann, made $47 million from swap sales as shown in the movie.
- Adam Mckay
- Brad Pitt
The Big Short: Directed by Adam McKay. With Ryan Gosling, Rudy Eisenzopf, Casey Groves, Charlie Talbert. In 2006-2007 a group of investors bet against the United States mortgage market. In their research, they discover how flawed and corrupt the market is.
- Adam Mckay
- 2 min
Dec 25, 2015 · In The Big Short, Steve Carell plays the outspoken Mark Baum, one of four main characters based on real-life men who worked in finance during the late-2000s financial crisis. It's a time...
Apr 7, 2024 · The Big Short explores the flawed and corrupt U.S. mortgage market through a group of investors in 2006-2007. Christian Bale's character is the only main character whose name stays...
- Mauricio Cueto
- Brad Pitt
- Adam Mckay
Based on a book by Michael Lewis, “The Big Short” is about how several traders and hedge fund managers made fortunes because they saw that the housing market’s decline would cause a collapse of bonds contrived from sub-prime mortgages. The terminology is both dry and dizzying, the machinations incredibly convoluted.
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...
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- Comedy, Drama
- R
