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Margin Call (25-Jan-2011)

Director: J. C. Chandor

Writer: J. C. Chandor

Keywords: Thriller, Business, New York

Corporate-themed thriller follows a Wall Street investment firm for a day and a half at the onset of the 2007-08 financial crisis.

ABSTRACT
Set on Wall Street at the start of the devastating 2007-08 financial crisis, Margin Call centers on investment bank employees Seth Bregman, Peter Sullivan, and Will Emerson as they become witnesses to a crisis at their firm concerning expensive sums of so-called "toxic assets" that grows and expands into a full-blown scandal enveloping every executive up to and including the firm's CEO over a 36-hour expanse of time. Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.

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Simon Baker
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Paul Bettany
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27-May-1971   A Knight's Tale
Jeremy Irons
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Aasif Mandvi
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Mary McDonnell
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28-Apr-1952   Stands With A Fist
Demi Moore
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11-Nov-1962   Ghost
Zachary Quinto
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2-Jun-1977   Sylar on Heroes
Kevin Spacey
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26-Jul-1959   The Usual Suspects
Stanley Tucci
Actor
11-Jan-1960   Joe Gould's Secret
Ashley Williams
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12-Nov-1978   Good Morning Miami

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