Inside Job
Movie, 2010, Named by fans, Set in First in the trilogy
Inside Job is #40 of 48 in release order and #46 of 48 in chronological order in the Spiritual Trilogies.
The story
A film that exposes the shocking truth behind the economic crisis of 2008. The global financial meltdown, at a cost of over $20 trillion, resulted in millions of people losing their homes and jobs. Through extensive research and interviews with major financial insiders, politicians and journalists, Inside Job traces the rise of a rogue industry and unveils the corrosive relationships which have corrupted politics, regulation and academia.
Inside Job recap
Charles Ferguson's documentary, narrated by Matt Damon, sets out how the 2008 financial crisis happened. It opens in Iceland, where deregulation and privatised banks led to a collapse, then moves to the United States in five parts. It traces decades of deregulation, from the savings and loan crisis to a 2000 law that kept derivatives out of reach of regulators. It explains how mortgages were pooled into securities that ratings agencies rated AAA, how banks bet against products they sold, and how insurers like AIG wrote credit default swaps they could not cover. It covers the failure of Lehman Brothers, the AIG rescue and the bank bailout, and the job losses that followed. Ferguson interviews economists, officials and financiers including George Soros, Paul Volcker, Barney Frank and Christine Lagarde, and presses academics about paid consulting work they did not disclose. It begins the Wall Street Trilogy, three films about finance and the 2008 crash.
Inside Job ending explained
The film concludes that the crisis came from an industry that captured its regulators, its academics and its ratings agencies, and that almost no one was held responsible. Executives kept their fortunes and no senior figure was prosecuted. Economists who argued for deregulation had undisclosed financial ties. The final section argues that the reforms passed afterward were weak and that many officials from the years before the crash returned to power under the new administration, so that the system remains largely unchanged.
Post-credits scenes
No. There is no post-credits scene.
Where to watch Inside Job
Inside Job is streaming on YouTube (free) and Tubi in the US. You can rent or buy it on Apple TV, Google Play, and YouTube.
Ratings
IMDb 8.2/10, Rotten Tomatoes 98%
Where it fits
- Release order: after Black Swan, before The World's End.
- Chronological order: after The Martian, before The Wolf of Wall Street.
Cast
- Matt Damon as Narrator
- Bill Ackman as Self - Hedge Fund Manager
- Jonathan Alpert as Self - Therapist
- Christine Lagarde as Self - Finance Minister, France
- Daniel Alpert as Self - Managing Director, Westwood Capital
- Sigridur Benediktsdottir as Self - Special Investigative Committee, Icelandic Parliament
- Gylfi Zoega as Self - Professor of Economics, University of Iceland
- Andri Snær Magnason as Self - Writer & Filmmaker
- Paul Volcker as Self - Former Federal Reserve Chairman
- Dominique Strauss-Kahn as Self - Managing Director, International Monetary Fund
- George Soros as Self - Chairman, Soros Fund Management
- Barney Frank as Self - Chairman, Financial Services Committee
Directed by Charles Ferguson.