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Synopsis: Three separate but parallel stories of the U.S mortgage housing crisis of 2005 are told. Michael Burry, an eccentric ex-physician turned one-eyed Scion Capital hedge fund manager, has traded traditional office attire for shorts, bare feet and a Supercuts haircut. He believes that the US housing market is built on a bubble that will burst within the next few years. Autonomy within the company allows Burry to do largely as he pleases, so Burry proceeds to bet against the housing market with the banks, who are more than happy to accept his proposal for something that has never happened in American history. The banks believe that Burry is a crackpot and therefore are confident in that they will win the deal. Jared Vennett with Deutschebank gets wind of what Burry is doing and, as an investor believes he too can cash in on Burry's beliefs. An errant telephone call to FrontPoint Partners gets this information into the hands of Mark Baum, an idealist who is fed up with the corruption in the f
Director(s): Adam McKay
Production: Paramount Pictures
  Won 1 Oscar. Another 37 wins & 79 nominations.
 
IMDB:
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Metacritic:
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Rotten Tomatoes:
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Year:
2015
130 min
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So now we pay up premiums

on these swaps against

housing-market until

the mortgages fail?

In other words...

We lose millions until something

that has never happened before... happens?

That's correct!

Hello mark Baum

oh hey Cathy!

It wasn't me, I had a personal thing this afternoon.

I'm not your babysitter.

If your appoint makes money for

mark and Sally I'm happy!

Ok... hey did I hear you're expecting?

Eh, we're expecting to be expecting...

I'd be upset clearing this out, but we're ..

That's exciting!

Lump.. In my ball

I'll go in for a scan

hmm

turns out I have large thing,

called an epididymis

which is a thing that goes around the ball

and is like a sack underneath.

I have an extremely pronounced epididymis

enriveted that is.

Almost as large as another

testicle on itself

so get this... Cynthia..

Guys!

Cynthia wants me to quit!

And open a b&b in Vermont.

That's great! I'd love to see mark

Baum run a bed and breakfast!

Like:
Here's your steel-cut

oatmeal a**hole!

Mark refused to kiss the ring

of the people with the checkbooks,

so he had to set up his fund

under Morgan Stanley's umbrella.

His small team his...

Distrust of the system.

You guys are sick..

You're sick!

She says, this job is making me unhappy.

But you're happy when you're unhappy!

I am happy when I'm unhappy!

Bennie Daniel

you know how to make a muffin?

Mark's numbers guy.

Do you even know how to do laundry?

Make a bed? -Okay!

Bennie lost his father to a

violent crime when he was young

just like mark,

he didn't talk about it.

I don't talk about that!

Cynthia's no joke, she could

actually make him move to Vermont!

I mean, she made me start wearing a suit.

Porter Collins, former Olympic rower,

went to brown.

He worked with Baum at

a previous firm, and

couldn't figure out why

no-one listened to Baum.

The guy with all the good ideas.

Sir, yeah, I know, do you have the

wrong front-point? Cause there

is another front-point in this

same building that is baum's

and Danny Moses, the optimist of the bunch.

And a hell of a trader,

which is the only

reason they put up with

his bullshit optimism.

You're a weird caller, you take longer

with a wrong number than anybody else

I mean... it's this guy...

From... deutsche,

who was talking about

shorting housing bonds.

And then, in the middle of the call where I

had realized he had the wrong front-point.

And then... and then... cause he

wanted the one on the eighth floor.

He wanted to short housing bonds?

Hmmm

it happens like five times a day, that

somebody uses the wrong front-point.

We should change our name!

Wait, wait...

He wanted to short housing bonds?

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Charles Randolph

Charles Randolph is an American screenwriter and producer for film and television. Randolph was born in Nashville, Tennessee. He was a cultural studies and philosophy professor. At age 33, Randolph spent a weekend in Los Angeles giving lectures at the University of Southern California. From a chance meeting with someone who worked for the Farrelly brothers, Randolph was inspired to attempt screenwriting.Randolph is married to Israeli actress Mili Avital, with whom he has two children. more…

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