The Big Short

This is a true story

This week's Oscar hopeful garned five nominations, including Best Picture. The story is based on the economic meltdown in 2008, when four outsiders saw what the big banks, media and government refused to: the coming global collapse of the economy. This gave them an idea: The Big Short. Their bold investment leads them into the dark underbelly of modern banking where they must question everyone and everything.

130 minutes.
No persons under 13 (Language).
Biographical, Drama, On the art circuit

Not currently showing on the local cinema circuit.

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Credits

Cast	Ryan Gosling, Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Brad Pitt
Director	Adam McKay
Screenplay	Charles Randolph, Adam McKay, from the book by Michael Lewis
Music	Nicholas Britell
Cinematography	Barry Ackroyd
Editing	Hank Corwin
Sound formats	Dolby Digital, Datasat
Soundtrack	Available
Made in	2015
Produced by	Plan B Entertainment, Regency Enterprises

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Film and Publications Board (FPB) Report (SA)

Genre	Comedy, drama
Language	Moderate impact, frequent, crude
Nudity	Low to mild impact, infrequent
Sex	None
Violence	None
Prejudice	None
Blasphemy	None
Drug abuse	None
Comments
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ScreenIt Report (USA)

Sex / Nudity	Violence	Blood / Gore / Gross
Guns / Weapons	Profanity	Alcohol / Drugs
Smoking	Disrespectful / Bad Attitude	Imitative Behaviour
Frightening / Tense Scenes	Jump Scenes	Tense Family Scenes
Music (Scary/Tense)	Music (Inappropriate)	Topics to talk about

CommonSenseMedia Report (USA)

Suggested age limit 16 +	Positive messages	Positive role models
Violence	Sex	Language
Consumerism	Drinking, drugs, smoking

Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
What the Critics say
Cape Argus / The Star Christopher Hooton Financial crisis becomes intelligible, entertaining.	15
Die Burger Paul Boekkooi Vermaak op koers in Wall Street-verhaal.	10
Cape Times Todd McCarthy Not quite on the money.	10
ScreenIt Jim Judy While the synopsis might not make it sound like a fun time at the movies, all involved turn this into a thoroughly engaging, entertaining, funny and ultimately horrifying look at what happened to our financial system with hints it could be headed there again. One of the best films of 2015.	15
Metacritic.com 44 critics	16
Rottentomatoes critics 194 critics	16
Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer The Big Short approaches a serious, complicated subject with an impressive attention to detail -- and manages to deliver a well-acted, scathingly funny indictment of its real-life villains in the bargain.	18
Movie Review Query Engine MRQE critics	15
CommonSenseMedia Staff evaluation Finance dramedy turns complex ideas into gripping cinema.	15
What the People say
Metacritic.com users 173 users	17
Rottentomatoes users 36242 users	16
Internet 29519 Netizens Excellent, ultimately bleak	16
Average .. 75%	15