The Big Short: Book vs. Movie
Adam McKay’s The Big Short (2015) adapts Michael Lewis’s 2010 nonfiction book. Several groups of investors uncover weaknesses in the mortgage market and bet against the financial products built around it.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- Michael Lewis
- Year
- 2010
- Pages
- 291Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 9 hr 43 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- Michael Lewis
Michael Lewis follows investors who examine the mortgages behind apparently secure financial products and conclude that the housing boom cannot last. Michael Burry, Steve Eisman, and others find ways to bet against those products, then struggle to hold their positions while the wider market dismisses their reasoning. Their investigations expose the incentives that allow lenders, traders, and rating agencies to keep a failing system in motion.
- Director
- Adam McKay
- Writer
- Michael Lewis, Adam McKay, Charles Randolph
- Year
- 2015
- Runtime
- 2 hr 10 minWatch on Amazon
- Cast
- Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Brad Pitt
- Genre
- biographical, comedy drama, Crime, Drama
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
Fund manager Michael Burry purchases insurance against mortgage bonds that almost everyone else regards as safe. Trader Jared Vennett brings the opportunity to Mark Baum’s skeptical team, while two young investors seek help making a similar wager. As they investigate empty housing developments and reassuring industry claims, the prospect of a huge payout becomes inseparable from the losses their bet predicts for everyone else.
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