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Lewis Ranieri
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Casey Groves | ... |
Fund Manager
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Maria Frangos | ... |
Exotic Dancer
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Christian Bale | ... | ||
Hunter Burke | ... |
Analyst
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Bernard Hocke | ... |
Coach
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Shauna Rappold | ... |
Michael Burry's Mom
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Brandon Stacy | ... |
Michael Burry's Dad
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Peter Epstein | ... |
Paul Baum
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Anthony Marble | ... |
Therapy Businessman #1
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Silas Cooper | ... |
Therapy Businessman #2
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Three separate but parallel stories of the mid 2000s mortgage housing crisis in the US are told. It's 2005. Eccentric ex-physician turned one-eyed Scion Capital hedge fund manager Michael Burry, who tosses traditional office attire for shorts, bare feet and a Supercuts haircut, believes, based on research, that the US housing market is built on a bubble that will burst within the next few years. Having autonomy within the company to do largely as he pleases, Michael proceeds to bet against the housing market with the banks, who are more than happy to accept his proposal for something that has never happened in American history, they believing in the process that Michael is a crackpot and they are a sure very lucrative winner in the deal. Jared Vennett with Deutschebank gets wind of what Burry is doing and, as an investor himself, believes he too can cash in on Burry's beliefs. An errant telephone call to FrontPoint Partners gets this information into the hands of Mark Baum, an ... Written by Huggo
Don't know how Adam McKay made deplorable humans, blinding fear, gut-boiling outrage and gleeful shaming so much fun to watch. He brought along his bag o' laffs but planted them in such rich soil so we had to hack our way through the thick underbrush of tainted greenbacks and marked decks.
Everyone's in top form. Didn't recognize Brad Pitt for awhile. Ryan Gosling funniest. Christian Bale let us feel his pain and lonely genius. Steve Carell dug deep and came up with a real mensch.
Nice to see Marisa Tomei, Hamish Linklater, John Magaro, Rafe Spall, Finn Wittrock, Max Greenfield and talented others working at a solid level.
I walked out of the Westwood Bruin Theater in awe and mad as hell.