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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.
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...
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- 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.
Jun 18, 2024 · The Big Short establishes Baum’s distrust of the system and cynical nature when it came to his job and the people around him, and the 2008 financial crisis exposed to him that the system was even worse than he originally thought.