Fresh
You'll need a clear head to follow this impressive and angry American doc about the financial meltdown...
Dave Calhoun, Time Out
Inside Job
The film that cost over $20,000,000,000,000 to make.
2010 · 1h 49m · PG-13
Crime, Documentary
Directed by
Charles Ferguson
Overview
A film that exposes the shocking truth behind the economic crisis of 2008. The global financial meltdown, at a cost of over $20 trillion, resulted in millions of people losing their homes and jobs. Through extensive research and interviews with major financial insiders, politicians and journalists, Inside Job traces the rise of a rogue industry and unveils the corrosive relationships which have corrupted politics, regulation and academia.
Director and cast
- Charles Ferguson Director
- Matt Damon as Narrator
- William Ackman as Self - Hedge Fund Manager
- Daniel Alpert as Self - Managing Director, Westwood Capital
- Jonathan Alpert as Self - Therapist
- Christine Lagarde as Self - Finance Minister, France
- Sigridur Benediktsdottir as Self - Special Investigative Committee, Icelandic Parliament
- Gylfi Zoega Cast
- Andri Snær Magnason Cast
- Paul Volcker Cast
- Dominique Strauss-Kahn Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
98%
Tomatometer
Fresh
This scathing expose should be enough to alarm people all over the political spectrum.
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel
Fresh
Wall Street owns Washington. You might think you know this, but "Inside Job" makes you feel the enormity of it.
Tom Long, Detroit News
Fresh
You don't have to know the difference between a credit default swap and a collateralized debt obligation to feel enraged anew by Charles Ferguson's thorough dissection of the country's economic collapse of 2008.
Christy Lemire, Associated Press
Fresh
Whether it's parsing the definition of a derivative or detailing the bad faith of major financial institutions, the new documentary Inside Job approaches its deconstruction of the financial meltdown with laserlike focus.
Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News
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