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Synopsis: In the real-time, high stakes thriller Money Monster, George Clooney and Julia Roberts star as financial TV host Lee Gates and his producer Patty, who are put in an extreme situation when an irate investor who has lost everything (Jack O'Connell) forcefully takes over their studio. During a tense standoff broadcast to millions on live TV, Lee and Patty must work furiously against the clock to unravel the mystery behind a conspiracy at the heart of today's fast-paced, high-tech global markets.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Director(s): Jodie Foster
Production: Smokehouse Pictures
  2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.5
Metacritic:
55
Rotten Tomatoes:
57%
R
Year:
2016
98 min
Website
1,386 Views


One minute to air.

One minute. Clear the stage, please.

Patty, honest answer.

How many nights a week

do you eat dinner in your pajamas?

Like, on average, over the course

of my life? Or just since James left?

Listen, listen.

Because I haven't eaten dinner alone

since the '90s. That's hand to God.

Well, that's just awful.

That just makes me feel sorry for you.

Why do you feel sorry for me?

Hang on, Patty. Just one second.

Ron, you walking hard or what?

Oh, uh, this stuff is incredible.

I'm talking zero to 60 in, like, 20 seconds flat.

Good, so it's a buy, then.

All right. Put it away and find me

a better lead for next week's show.

Put it away?

- Lee, necklace.

- Yeah. Okay. Thank you.

30 seconds to air. 30 seconds.

Where's my hat?

Can we turn down the contrast

on her a little bit, please?

Sure.

- How's that?

- That's better. Thank you.

- Fifteen seconds.

- Okay.

Here we go. Good luck, everybody.

- Open on VT 16.

- Ten, nine...

- Coming out of the opening to camera 3.

- ...eight, seven...

Six,

five,

four,

three, two,

- one.

- Track rollup.

Here he is,

the wizard of Wall Street himself, Lee Gates.

My money ain't funny and it keep comin'

I welcome the money and the cash

My money ain't funny and it keep comin'

I welcome the money and the cash

At the welcome mat swollen fat

In stupid stacks, the cash

My money ain't funny and it keep comin'...

Thank you very much.

The name is Lee Gates.

The show is Money Monster,

the day is Friday,

and the Dow has dropped a seismic

seven points this morning.

- Ready scream one.

- So what does that mean for the market...

Should you...

Ready cheer three.

- ...or should you...

- Roll.

And the answer is,

who cares about the Dow?

It's a measly 30 companies.

So why do you people

keep paying attention to it?

Well, probably because

our network insists on tracking it.

- Right here at the bottom of the screen...

- Not sticking to the script.

...in large font all day.

- Why does he keep talking?

- And why do they do that?

Sacajawea, Lee.

Because you people keep paying

so much attention to it.

Sacajawea.

- And the circle just keeps on turning.

- Shut up.

Thank you.

So let's try to ignore it.

Let's try to ignore it for one day.

One day, and talk about the thing

that everybody else is talking about.

Ibis Clear Capital is down another quarter

to $8.40,

but rather than grabbing the third rail

and losing control of our bowels,

we here at Money Monster like to go...

Straight to the Source!

Straight to the source.

As it turns out, Walt Camby is

35,000 feet in the air right now,

but we have somebody

far prettier right here at sea level.

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