Margin Call (2011). Movie with Kevin Spacey. Reviews

Margin Call is a 2011 movie written and directed by J.C. Chandor. Starring Kevin Spacey, Paul Bettany and Jeremy Irons.

Plot

Set in the high-stakes world of the financial industry, Margin Call is a thriller entangling the key players at an investment firm during one perilous 24-hour period in the early stages of the 2008 financial crisis. When entry-level analyst Peter Sullivan (Zachary Quinto) unlocks information that could prove to be the downfall of the firm, a roller-coaster ride ensues as decisions both financial and moral catapult the lives of all involved to the brink of disaster. Expanding the parameters of genre, Margin Call is a riveting examination of the human components of a subject too often relegated to partisan issues of black and white. (Filmaffinity)

Movie Reviews

“It captures how our financial institutions became secret havens to a selfishness so undiluted it was sociopathic. You watch this drama of big money with a tingle of toxic fascination” Owen Gleiberman: Entertainment Weekly

• “Chilling and enjoyable in unequal measure (…) ‘Margin Call’ succeeds in portraying a culture divorced from the one in which ordinary people live and work” Joe Morgenstern: The Wall Street Journal 

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