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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.
- $50 million
The 2008 financial crisis is seen through the eyes of four opportunistic moneymen who foresaw the consequences of the fraudulent mortgage-lending practices of large banks on Wall Street. 29,180 IMDb 7.8 2 h 10 min 2015. X-Ray UHD R. Comedy · Drama · Cerebral · Intense.
- 130 min
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine is a nonfiction book by Michael Lewis about the build-up of the United States housing bubble during the 2000s. It was released on March 15, 2010, by W. W. Norton & Company. It spent 28 weeks on The New York Times best-seller list, and was the basis for the 2015 film of the same name.
- Michael Lewis
- 320 pp.
- 2010
- March 15, 2010
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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- Adam Mckay
- R
- Steve Carell
Summaries. 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. Three separate but parallel stories of the U.S mortgage housing crisis of 2005 are told.
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Dec 10, 2015 · 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.
