Too Big to Fail

(2011)

★ 6.9 IMDb · 274 votes

Genres: Drama, телевизионный фильм, History

Year: 2011

Runtime: 98 мин

Country: United States of America

Director: Curtis Hanson

Cast: Джеймс Вудс, Джон Хёрд, Уильям Хёрт, Пол Джаматти, Билли Крудап, Тофер Грейс, Мэттью Модайн, Тони Шалуб, Билл Пуллман, Ed Asner

Plot

An intimate look at the epochal financial crisis of 2008 and the powerful men and women who decided the fate of the world's economy in a matter of a few weeks.

A close look behind the scenes, between late March and mid-October, 2008: we follow Richard Fuld's benighted attempt to save Lehman Brothers; conversations among Hank Paulson (the Secretary of the Treasury), Ben Bernanke (chair of the Federal Reserve), and Tim Geithner (president of the New York Fed) as they seek a private solution for Lehman's; and, back-channel negotiations among Paulson, Warren Buffet, investment bankers, a British regulator, and members of Congress as almost all work to save the U.S. economy. By the end, with the no-strings bailout arranged, modest confidence restored on Wall Street, and a meltdown averted, Paulson wonders if banks will lend.