Film · 2011 · Drama
Margin Call
Directed by J.C. Chandor
2011
★ 5.2 editorial score
J.C. Chandor shot it in seventeen days on one office floor and got Jeremy Irons and Kevin Spacey anyway: an investment bank works out overnight that it is holding something worthless.
“In "Margin Call," the executives working late at an imperilled investment firm in Manhattan stand in an office tower and stare at the lights and the streets below, wondering if the great city isn’t a dream. The movie is a fictionalized account of a disastrous twenty-four hours in 2008, when "financial instruments" that had seemed solid dissolved into air. The rush of panic is halted, now and then, by moments of disbelief.”
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