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    The Big Short

    R2015 · Comedy drama · 2h 10m

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  2. Synopsis. The film consists of three separate but concurrent stories, loosely connected by their actions in the years leading up to the 2007 housing market crash . Scion Capital. In 2005, eccentric hedge fund manager Michael Burry discovers that the United States housing market, based on high-risk subprime loans, is extremely unstable.

  3. Mar 12, 2021 · Key Takeaways. The Big Short is a 2015 film adaptation of author Michael Lewis’s best-selling book of the same name. Directed by Adam McKay, The Big Short chronicles the years leading up...

  4. Synopsis Jared Vennett (Ryan Gosling) states to the viewers that the world of banking is extremely boring. Things changed when Lewis Ranieri (Rudy Eisenzopf) created a plan for mortgage-backed securities to ensure bigger profits with lower risks since everyone was paying their mortgages.

  5. 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.

  6. Feb 25, 2016 · The Big Short tells the story of the financial crisis through a group of outsiders and misfits who predicted the housing collapse and became fabulously rich. If you grasp that, then you’ll be able to enjoy the 5-time Oscar nominated film.

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  7. May 2, 2016 · 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.

  8. Burry bets against the housing market by throwing more than $1 billion of his investors' money into credit default swaps. His actions attract the attention of banker Jared Vennett (Ryan Gosling ...

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