Inside Job (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.
Country: United States of America
Directors: Charles Ferguson
Casts: Matt Damon as Narrator, William Ackman as Himself - Hedge Fund Manager, Barack Obama as Himself (archive footage), George W. Bush as Himself (archive footage), Jonathan Alpert as Himself - Therapist, Christine Lagarde as Herself - Finance Minister, France, Ann Curry as Herself (archive footage) (uncredited), Daniel Alpert as Himself - Managing Director, Westwood Capital, Sigridur Benediktsdottir as Herself - Special Investigative Committee, Icelandic Parliament, Gylfi Zoega as Himself - Professor of Economics, University of Iceland, Andri Snær Magnason as Himself - Writer & Filmmaker, Paul Volcker as Himself - Former Federal Reserve Chairman, Dominique Strauss-Kahn as Himself - Managing Director, International Monetary Fund, George Soros as Himself - Chairman, Soros Fund Management, Barney Frank as Himself - Chairman, Financial Services Committee, David McCormick as Himself - Under Secretary of the Treasury, Bush Administration, Scott Talbott as Himself - Chief Lobbyist, Financial Services Roundtable, Andrew Sheng as Himself - Chief Adviser, China Banking Regulatory Commission, Lee Hsien Loong as Himself - Prime Minister, Singapore, Gillian Tett as Herself - U.S. Managing Editor, The Financial Times, Nouriel Roubini as Himself - Professor, NYU Business School, R. Glenn Hubbard as Himself - Chief Economic Adviser, Bush Administration, Eliot Spitzer as Himself - Former Governor, New York, Samuel Hayes as Himself - Professor Emeritus of Investment Banking, Harvard Business School, Charles Morris as Himself - Author, The Two Trillion Dollar Meltdown, Robert Gnaizda as Himself - Former Director, Greenlining Institute, Willem Buiter as Himself - Chief Economist, Citigroup, Andrew Lo as Himself - Professor & Director, MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering, Michael Greenberger as Himself - Former Deputy Director, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Satyajit Das as Himself - Derivatives Consultant, Frank Partnoy as Himself - Professor of Law & Finance, University of California San Diego, Eric Halperin as Himself - Director, Center for Responsible Learning, Martin Wolf as Himself - Chief Economics Commentator, The Financial Times, Kenneth Rogoff as Himself - Professor of Economics, Harvard, Raghuram Rajan as Himself - Chief Economist, International Monetary Fund, Lawrence McDonald as Himself - Former Vice President, Lehman Brothers, Harvey Miller as Himself - Lehman's Bankruptcy Lawyer, Kristin Davis as Herself - Manhattan Madam, Allan Sloan as Himself - Senior Editor, Fortune Magazine, Jerome Fons as Himself - Former Managing Director, Moody's Rating Agency, Frederic Mishkin as Himself - Governor, Federal Reserve
