Synopsis
A film that exposes the shocking truth behind the economic crisis of 2008. The global financial meltdown, at a cost of over $20 trillion, resulted in millions of people losing their homes and jobs. Through extensive research and interviews with major financial insiders, politicians and journalists, Inside Job traces the rise of a rogue industry and unveils the corrosive relationships which have corrupted politics, regulation and academia.
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Cast
- Matt DamonNarrator
- William AckmanSelf - Hedge Fund Manager
- Barack ObamaSelf (archive footage)
- George W. BushSelf (archive footage)
- Jonathan AlpertSelf - Therapist
- Christine LagardeSelf - Finance Minister, France
- Ann CurrySelf (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Daniel AlpertSelf - Managing Director, Westwood Capital
- Sigridur BenediktsdottirSelf - Special Investigative Committee, Icelandic Parliament
- Gylfi ZoegaSelf - Professor of Economics, University of Iceland
Recommendations
- 100
Variety
Charles Ferguson's sophomore film Inside Job is the definitive screen investigation of the global economic crisis, providing hard evidence of flagrant amorality -- and of a new nonfiction master at work. - 100
Wall Street Journal
Inside Job has the added value, as well as the cold comfort, of being furiously interesting and hugely infuriating. It's a scathing examination of the global economic meltdown that began more than two years ago and continues to affect our lives. - 100
The New York Times
Inside Job, a sleek, briskly paced film whose title suggests a heist movie, is the story of a crime without punishment, of an outrage that has so far largely escaped legal sanction and societal stigma. - 100
Salon
It might well be the most important film you see this year, and the most important documentary of this young century. - 90
New York Magazine (Vulture)
As he proved in his Iraq-centered "No End in Sight," policy wonk turned documentarian Charles Ferguson has no peer when it comes to tracking the course of a preventable catastrophe. - 90
The Hollywood Reporter
Most impressively, it makes it understandable to those of us who don't know much at all about economics. - 85
Movieline
Even more than it wants to inform Inside Job seeks to enrage. - 83
The A.V. Club
From an emotional standpoint, it's enormously satisfying, even cathartic to watch Ferguson "nail" some of the rogues behind the economic crisis with the unseemly zeal of Stephen Colbert on The Colbert Report.
