The Big Short

In the mid-2000s, hedge fund manager Michael Burry (Christian Bale) took a hard look at the subprime mortgage market…and saw the tidal wave of borrower defaults to come. As a handful of financial industry insiders watched him bet billions against the very stability of the banks, they felt themselves torn between knowing the consequence of collapse…and getting themselves a very lucrative piece of that action. Adam McKay’s trenchant take on the ’08 economic crisis, inspired by the Michael Lewi