The film begins by examining the effects of the government of Iceland's shift toward deregulation in 2000, which included the privatization of its banks. When Lehman Brothers went bankrupt and AIG collapsed, Iceland and the rest of the world went into a global recession.
MPAA Rating: | PG-13 |
Genre: | Crime, Documentary |
Country: | United States |
Produced By: | Christina Weiss Lurie, Kalyanee Mam, Anna Moot-Levin, Charles Ferguson, Audrey Marrs, Jeffrey Lurie |
Directed By: | Charles Ferguson |
Written By: | Adam Bolt, Charles Ferguson, Chad Beck |
Cast: | John Campbell, Patrick Daniel, Matt Damon, Sigridur Benediktsdottir, Jerome Fons, William Ackman, Ben Bernanke, George W. Bush, Jonathan Alpert, Willem Buiter, Alan Greenspan, Robert Gnaizda, Martin Feldstein, Timothy Geithner, Kristin Davis, Satyajit Das, Daniel Alpert, Michael Greenberger, Barney Frank, Eric Halperin |
In Theaters: | Nov 12, 2010 |
Runtime: | 1 hour 45 minutes |
Production: | Sony Pictures Classics, Representational Pictures, Screen Pass Pictures |
Budget: | $2,000,000 |
Box Office: | $4,312,735 |
Available On: | Amazon, Itunes, Netflix, Vudu |
Read More On: | Wikipedia |