Inside Job

Inside Job

109 mins | Documentary | Oct. 8, 2010

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.

Inside Job

109 mins | Documentary | Oct. 8, 2010

Inside Job
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.
IMDb rating 8.2
Producers Sony Pictures
Original title Inside Job
Directors Charles Ferguson
Writers Adam Bolt, Chad Beck

Cast

Matt Damon

as Narrator

William Ackman

as Self - Hedge Fund Manager

Barack Obama

as Self (archive footage)

George W. Bush

as Self (archive footage)

Jonathan Alpert

as Self - Therapist

Christine Lagarde

as Self - Finance Minister, France

Ann Curry

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Daniel Alpert

as Self - Managing Director, Westwood Capital

Sigridur Benediktsdottir

as Self - Special Investigative Committee, Icelandic Parliament

Gylfi Zoega

as Self - Professor of Economics, University of Iceland

Andri Snær Magnason

as Self - Writer & Filmmaker

Paul Volcker

as Self - Former Federal Reserve Chairman

Dominique Strauss-Kahn

as Self - Managing Director, International Monetary Fund

George Soros

as Self - Chairman, Soros Fund Management

Barney Frank

as Self - Chairman, Financial Services Committee

David McCormick

as Self - Under Secretary of the Treasury, Bush Administration

Scott Talbott

as Self - Chief Lobbyist, Financial Services Roundtable

Andrew Sheng

as Self - Chief Adviser, China Banking Regulatory Commission

Lee Hsien Loong

as Self - Prime Minister, Singapore

Gillian Tett

as Self - U.S. Managing Editor, The Financial Times

Nouriel Roubini

as Self - Professor, NYU Business School

R. Glenn Hubbard

as Self - Chief Economic Adviser, Bush Administration

Eliot Spitzer

as Self - Former Governor, New York

Samuel Hayes

as Self - Professor of Investment Banking, Harvard Business School

Charles Morris

as Self - Author, The Two Trillion Dollar Meltdown

Robert Gnaizda

as Self - Former Director, Greenlining Institute

Willem Buiter

as Self - Chief Economist, Citigroup

Andrew Lo

as Self - Director, MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering

Michael Greenberger

as Himself - Former Deputy Director, Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Satyajit Das

as Self - Derivatives Consultant

Frank Partnoy

as Himself - Professor of Law & Finance, University of California San Diego

Eric Halperin

as Self - Director, Center for Responsible Learning

Martin Wolf

as Self - Chief Economics Commentator, The Financial Times

Kenneth Rogoff

as Self - Professor of Economics, Harvard

Raghuram Rajan

as Self - Chief Economist, International Monetary Fund

Lawrence McDonald

as Self - Former Vice President, Lehman Brothers

Harvey Miller

as Self - Lehman's Bankruptcy Lawyer

Kristin Davis

as Self - Manhattan Madam

Allan Sloan

as Self - Senior Editor, Fortune Magazine

Jerome Fons

as Self - Former Managing Director, Moody's Rating Agency

Frederic Mishkin

as Self - Governor, Federal Reserve