The Big Short
About The Big Short
The men who made millions from a global economic meltdown.
The Big Short is a 2015 comedy film directed by Adam McKay. It runs 131 minutes and was released in December 2015.
Steve Carell takes the lead as Mark Baum, Christian Bale as Michael Burry, Ryan Gosling as Jared Vennett, and Brad Pitt as Ben Rickert. Written by Adam McKay and Charles Randolph. It was produced by Plan B Entertainment and Regency Enterprises. The film began as a novel.
Shelv files it under historical fiction, bank, fraud, and wall street.
Inside Job, The Wolf of Wall Street, and The Social Network make useful companions to The Big Short, all filed under finances and financial crisis. It scores 7.4 out of 10 from 10,216 TMDB voters and it carries a R rating.