A Movie Quest: #3 Margin Call
January 8th 2012 22:35
Margin Call was the third movie i watched on my movie quest for 2012. I had never heard of this movie until I saw it at my local Redbox. Very good cast for this movie.
Plot: Junior risk analysts Seth Bregman (Penn Badgley), Peter Sullivan (Zachary Quinto) and senior fixed income salesman Will Emerson (Paul Bettany) watch as a human resources team conducts mass layoffs on their trading floor. One of the fired employees is their boss, Eric Dale (Stanley Tucci), who works in risk management. Before leaving, Dale gives Peter a USB drive with a project he had been working on, telling him to "be careful." That night, Peter finishes the project, and discovers that trading will soon exceed the historical volatility levels used by the firm to calculate risk. Because of excessive leverage, if the firm's assets in mortgage backed securities decrease by 25%, the firm will suffer a loss greater than its market capitalization. Sullivan alerts Emerson, who calls head of sales Sam Rogers (Kevin Spacey).
Cast: Kevin Spacey as Sam Rogers
Paul Bettany as Will Emerson
Jeremy Irons as John Tuld
Zachary Quinto as Peter Sullivan
Penn Badgley as Seth Bregman
Simon Baker as Jared Cohen
Aasif Mandvi as Ramesh Shah
Mary McDonnell as Mary Rogers
Stanley Tucci as Eric Dale
Demi Moore as Sarah Robertson
Ashley Williams as Heather Burke
Al Sapienza as Louis Carmelo
Boxoffice:
October 21, 2011 (United States)
Running time 109 minutes
Language English
Budget $3.4–3.5 million (est.)
Box office $10,288,980 (worldwide)
This movie was very mind grabing. Looking at the inside of a big firm like that and see how they screw people. I enjoyed the movie and couldn't stop watching. Cast was great for this movie. A must see.
Rating: 6.5 stars out of 10
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