Inside Job

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Inside Job

PG-13,

2010,

1h 48m,

Documentary

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The global financial meltdown that took place in Fall 2008 caused millions of job and home losses and plunged the United States into a deep economic recession. Matt Damon narrates a documentary that provides a detailed examination of the elements that led to the collapse and identifies keys financial and political players. Director Charles Ferguson conducts a wide range of interviews and traces the story from the United States to China to Iceland to several other global financial hot spots.

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Critics Consensus

Disheartening but essential viewing, Charles Ferguson's documentary explores the 2008 Global Financial Crisis with exemplary rigor.

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Keith Uhlich

Time Out

Dec 18, 2022

3/5

It’s fun to watch the bastards squirm. Yet the film doesn’t follow through on the righteous indignation it stirs up.

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Vadim Rizov

Sight & Sound

Mar 1, 2011

Inside Job is far more watchable than it should be.

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Philip French

Guardian

Feb 22, 2011

I've only scratched the surface of this intelligent, riveting and informative film, which I cannot commend too highly.

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Kat Halstead

Common Sense Media

Sep 10, 2026

4/5

This Oscar-winning documentary does a great job of explaining the financial terms and policies at the heart of the 2008 crisis, while still retaining a thriller-like approach.

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Michael Leader

Den of Geek

May 7, 2024

4/5

Both informative and bleak.

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Joanne Laurier

World Socialist Web Site

Mar 1, 2021

Inside Job by American documentarian Charles Ferguson (No End In Sight) is a valuable, detailed account of the global financial meltdown in September 2008.

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Finn G

Dec 19, 2018

Have watched using boxxy software. Best movie ever!

Finn S

Nov 14, 2018

I love this movie if for no other reason than the way it questions and undermines the way that scholars, specifically economists, go about their research and publishing. They are not pure nor are they living the life of the mind.

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Luke W

Nov 3, 2018

A gripping exposé of the abuses and excesses of mammoth, unaccountable financial institutions and corporations

Theodore S

Oct 4, 2018

Takes a closer look at what brought about the 2008 financial meltdown. Revelatory documentary reconstructs the inevitable financial development that lead to the 2088 crisis, but also names the perpetrators and their scheme and ends with the depressing certainty that it'll all happen again.

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Draco S

Apr 29, 2018

Mind-bending, I can't believe this isn't a news story, but they discuss how the media handled it and why. Very interesting, and motivating.

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Leia M

Oct 16, 2017

one of the best iconomic documentaries i have seen

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Charles Ferguson

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Matt Damon

Narrator

Gylfi Zoega

Self

Andri Snær Magnason

Self

Sigridur Benediktsdottir

Self

Paul Volcker

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Synopsis

The global financial meltdown that took place in Fall 2008 caused millions of job and home losses and plunged the United States into a deep economic recession. Matt Damon narrates a documentary that provides a detailed examination of the elements that led to the collapse and identifies keys financial and political players. Director Charles Ferguson conducts a wide range of interviews and traces the story from the United States to China to Iceland to several other global financial hot spots.

Director: Charles Ferguson
Producer: Charles Ferguson, Audrey Marrs
Screenwriter: Charles Ferguson
Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics
Production Co: Sony Pictures Classics
Rating: PG-13 (Some Sex-Related Material|Some Drug Material)
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 8, 2010, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Apr 16, 2012
Box Office (Gross USA): $4.3M
Runtime: 1h 48m

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