Adapted from a book by Ben Mezrich (author of the work that inspired “The Social Network”), “Dumb Money” returns to the incredible true story of the GameStop affair. With the director of “I, Tonya” and a golden cast.
In 2017, Craig Gillespie directed the astonishing I, Tonya and gave Margot Robbie an Oscar nomination for Best Actress (and the Best Supporting Actress statuette for Allison Janney). Six years later, and after having signed three episodes of the mini-series Pam & Tommy, he looks at another true story.
Which is no less incredible. Inspired by a book by Ben Mezrich (whose work “A Loner’s Revenge” gave birth to The Social Network, no less), Dumb Money returns to the GameStop affair, which gave all of Wall Street a cold sweat at the beginning of the decade.
In great difficulty for a while, with some eight hundred closures in the space of two years, this chain of American video game and electronic equipment stores has seen its stock market share fall to reach a value of 20 dollars in January 2021 To the delight of the hedge funds who had bet on its collapse.
Led 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 in Me, Tonya then Pam & Tommy), Dumb Money tells this story.
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Or rather the way in which a group of users of the WallStreetBets site (where those interested in the stock market talk about which securities to invest in, major market trends and other topics) manage to save the stock market value of GameStop. And caused the funds that predicted its fall to lose nearly seven billion dollars.
Traders of a new kind, who then specialized in companies whose professional investors are betting on the decline (from Nokia to Blackberry via the AMC cinema chain). But their crazy story has been somewhat eclipsed by Covid on this side of the Atlantic.
Dumb Money is fortunately offering you a catch-up session in theaters from November 29.