Chronicles the financial meltdown of 2008 and centers on Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson.Chronicles the financial meltdown of 2008 and centers on Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson.Chronicles the financial meltdown of 2008 and centers on Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson.
- Nominated for 11 Primetime Emmys
- 5 wins & 31 nominations total
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Did you know
- TriviaTITLE DROP: Mentioned by Hank Paulson character while lecturing his aide ("Here's your too big to fail").
- GoofsLaila Robins (playing the French Minister of Finance Christine Lagarde) begins her scene speaking in a French accent, and ends it with a decidedly British accent.
- Quotes
Ben Bernanke: I spent my entire academic career studying the Great Depression. The depression may have started because of a stock market crash, but what hit the general economy was a disruption of credit. Average citizens unable to borrow money, to do anything. To buy a home, start a business, stock their shelves. Credit has the ability to build a modern economy, but lack of credit has the ability to destroy it, swiftly and absolutely. If we do not act, boldly and immediately, we will replay the depression of the 1930s, only this time it will be far, far worse. We don't do this now, we won't have an economy on Monday.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Ebert Presents: At the Movies: Episode #1.18 (2011)
The direction by Curtis Hanson is razor-clean cut, and the performances, especially by James Woods, Paul Giamatti and William Hurt underscore the irony that not one of the self-serving "public servants" has "served" one single day of jail time and continue to live their over-the-top, elegant lifestyles.
The effective use of actually news footage from our 24/7 news cycle serve as a percussive soundtrack as we watch the financial worlds of your "off the Street" American citizens self destruct at the hands of the Bush administration.
Thank you HBO for continuing to do what you have done so well for so many years!
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- Runtime1 hour 39 minutes
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- 1.78 : 1
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