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.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.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.
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- TriviaAfter Christian Bale met with the real Dr. Michael Burry, he asked to have Burry's cargo shorts and T-shirt, which he then wore in the movie. Bale later said he hoped Burry would make it to the film's L.A. premiere, "because I really want to sit next to him and see if he's going to punch me in the f***ing face."
- GoofsThe quote, "And Caesar wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer." is wrong. It was Alexander the Great who wept.
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Mark Baum: I don't get it. Why are they confessing?
Danny Moses: They're not confessing.
Porter Collins: They're bragging.
- ConnectionsFeatured in 73rd Golden Globe Awards (2016)
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Written by Brann Dailor, Brent Hinds, Bill Kelliher, and Troy Sanders
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So Much Greed/So Little Compassion
I have to admit that I don't understand all the intricacies of the bond markets that were being manipulated here. Whether one is a Wall Street maven or not isn't the issue. The fact is that people sold mortgages to others who had no business getting into them. I recall a 60 Minutes report on the bubble before the crash took place. The expert had them drive through a desert area, filled with enormous houses, all of which were in default. If one looked in the windows of these, you could see that some of the tenants had stripped all kinds of fixtures and walked away. There were two types of buyers, it seemed. Those that were trying for the fast buck and those that really had no clue what they were getting into. The balloon mortgages took them from affordable to bankruptcy. This was unsustainable and it wasn't long before the banks found themselves with armloads of houses and buyers with hopeless debt. The guys in the movie are aware, but, for the most part, aren't all that sympathetic to these foibles. They go in to make money and they manage to do it. The whole thing that overrides this entire film is that all the evidence was right there, but the greed of most of the parties supersedes all of that. I thought this was a fine movie with a superb lesson. To the new generation. You may not be entitled to have whatever you want without paying your dues.
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- La gran apuesta
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- New Orleans, Louisiana, USA(primarily the Algiers neighborhood)
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- Budget
- $28,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $70,259,870
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $705,527
- Dec 13, 2015
- Gross worldwide
- $133,440,870
- Runtime2 hours 10 minutes
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- 2.35 : 1
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