An investment firm discovers the entire firm is in jeopardy due to an inaccuracy in a formula. Several employees passed this information about the mistake on to bosses months ago but nothing was done? In the next 24 hours, decisions must be made that pertain to the employees and the finances of everyday individuals. The setting is during the onset of the 2008 financial crisis.
This is a dramatic thriller on the eve of a huge Wall Street market crash. You see the inner workings of the company and some employees are fired before there is a conflict about the formula. Employees are given information about their settlements, escorted to their offices to pack personal belongings, escorted to the door and their cells phones terminated. After all this, the company wants to ask some of the employees to return and help out even after this kind of treatment? Cutthroat actions through and through. There is liberal use of strong words throughout this drama. The characters also drink and smoke frequently as a response to the stress. This is a thoughtful, muted, intelligent and terrifying tale of one financial firm in the beginning 26 hours of the 2007-2008 financial crisis. 3 1/2* (I liked this movie)
109 min, mystery directed and written by J.C. Chandor with Kevin Spacey, Jeremy Irons, Paul Bettany, Penn Badgley, Simon Baker, Zachary Quinto, Stanley Tucci, Demi Moore, Mary McDonnell, Aasif Mandvi, Ashley Williams, Susan Blackwell, Maria Dizzia, Jimmy Palumbo, Al Sapienza.
Note: Imdb 7.1 out of 10 with 112,459 reviews, 87% with 168 critics 74% audience with 19,955 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, Roger Ebert 4 1/2*, RollingStone 3* out of 4* Peter Travers, Amazon 4.1* out of 5* with 3,264 reviews, Common Sense Media Jeffrey M. Anderson age 16+, 4*, 1* Violence, 1* Sex, 4* Language, 1* Consumerism, 3* Drinking, Drugs & Smoking.
Special Note: This film was shot in seventeen days. The Moundsville Bridge mentioned by Eric Day actually exists. It was completed in 1986 and that was twenty-two years before the debit crash of 2008. J.C. Chandor said that he wrote the script for the story in just four days. He had been carrying the story in his head for about a year-and-a-half and did his writing between job interviews in Boulder, Colorado.
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