In 2017, Craig Gillespie directed the stunning I, Tonya, which earned Margot Robbie an Oscar nomination for Best Actress (and a Best Supporting Actress statuette for Allison Janney). Six years later, after signing on for three episodes of the mini-series Pam & Tommy, she is looking at another real-life story.
Which is no less incredible. Inspired by the book of Ben Mezrich (whose work “Lonesome Revenge” spawned the social network, no less), Dumb Money returns to the GameStop affair that had Wall Street in a cold sweat earlier in the decade.
Struggling for a time, closing around eight hundred in two years, this chain of American video game and electronic equipment stores has seen its stock market share fall, hitting $20 in January 2021. Hedge funds that bet on its collapse.
Directed by Paul Dano, who can be found alongside Vincent D’Onofrio, Pete Davidson, America Ferrera, Shailene Woodley, Seth Rogen, Nick Offerman and Sebastian Stan (Already Me, Tonya then Pam and Tom), Dumb Money tells this story.
Or rather, how the user group of the WallStreetBets site (where people interested in the stock market discuss which securities to invest in, major market trends and other topics) manages to save the value of GameStop’s stock market. And caused funds that had predicted its fall to lose nearly seven billion dollars.
A new breed of traders who then specialized in companies whose professional investors were betting on decline (from Nokia to Blackberry through the AMC movie theater chain). But their crazy story has been somewhat overshadowed by Covid on this side of the Atlantic.
Fortunately, Dumb Money will be bringing you a session in cinemas from November 29th.
Source: Allocine
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