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.

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Tagline
The film that cost $20,000,000,000,000 to make
Release date
2010-02-02
Runtime
1h 49m
Languages
English
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Director


  1. Charles Ferguson

Writer


  1. Chad Beck
  2. Adam Bolt

Cast


  1. Matt Damon
    Narrator
  2. Barack Obama
    Self (archive footage)
  3. George W. Bush
    Self (archive footage)
  4. David McCormick
  5. William Ackman
    Self - Hedge Fund Manager
  6. Christine Lagarde
    Self - Finance Minister, France
  7. George Soros
    Self - Chairman, Soros Fund Management
  8. Barney Frank
    Self - Chairman, Financial Services Committee
  9. Daniel Alpert
    Self - Managing Director, Westwood Capital
  10. Paul Volcker
    Self - Former Federal Reserve Chairman
  11. Eliot Spitzer
    Self - Former Governor, New York
  12. Ann Curry
    Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
  13. Allan Sloan
    Self - Senior Editor, Fortune Magazine
  14. Andrew Lo
    Self - Director, MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering
  15. Andrew Sheng
    Self - Chief Adviser, China Banking Regulatory Commission
  16. Andri Snær Magnason
    Self - Writer & Filmmaker
  17. Charles Morris
    Self - Author, The Two Trillion Dollar Meltdown
  18. David McCormick
    Self - Under Secretary of the Treasury, Bush Administration
  19. Dominique Strauss-Kahn
    Self - Managing Director, International Monetary Fund
  20. Eric Halperin
    Self - Director, Center for Responsible Learning
  21. Frank Partnoy
    Himself - Professor of Law & Finance, University of California San Diego
  22. Frederic Mishkin
    Self - Governor, Federal Reserve
  23. Gillian Tett
    Self - U.S. Managing Editor, The Financial Times
  24. Gylfi Zoega
    Self - Professor of Economics, University of Iceland
  25. Harvey Miller
    Self - Lehman's Bankruptcy Lawyer
  26. Jerome Fons
    Self - Former Managing Director, Moody's Rating Agency
  27. Jonathan Alpert
    Self - Therapist
  28. Kenneth Rogoff
    Self - Professor of Economics, Harvard
  29. Kristin Davis
    Self - Manhattan Madam
  30. Lawrence McDonald
    Self - Former Vice President, Lehman Brothers
  31. Lee Hsien Loong
    Self - Prime Minister, Singapore
  32. Martin Wolf
    Self - Chief Economics Commentator, The Financial Times
  33. Michael Greenberger
    Himself - Former Deputy Director, Commodity Futures Trading Commission
  34. Nouriel Roubini
    Self - Professor, NYU Business School
  35. Raghuram Rajan
    Self - Chief Economist, International Monetary Fund
  36. R. Glenn Hubbard
    Self - Chief Economic Adviser, Bush Administration
  37. Robert Gnaizda
    Self - Former Director, Greenlining Institute
  38. Samuel Hayes
    Self - Professor of Investment Banking, Harvard Business School
  39. Satyajit Das
    Self - Derivatives Consultant
  40. Scott Talbott
    Self - Chief Lobbyist, Financial Services Roundtable
  41. Sigridur Benediktsdottir
    Self - Special Investigative Committee, Icelandic Parliament
  42. Willem Buiter
    Self - Chief Economist, Citigroup

Composer


  1. Alex Heffes

Producer


  1. Jeffrey Lurie
  2. Charles Ferguson
  3. Anna Moot-Levin
  4. Audrey Marrs
  5. Christina Weiss Lurie
  6. Kalyanee Mam

Director of Photography


  1. Svetlana Cvetko
  2. Kaylanee Mam

Editor


  1. Chad Beck
  2. Adam Bolt