Its title being a mildly derogatory term concerning individual investors, Dumb Money is a true-life comedy-drama in the mould of The Big Short or 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:The Wolf of Wall Street. Only now the subject is what happens🧔 wheꦕn the day traders fight back.
The story unfolds in 🅰2020, with internet stock prophet Keith Gill (Paul Dano) – aka Roaring Kitty – putting his savings into GameStop, a videogame retailer haemorrhaging money.
Gill believes Wall Street has undervalued the company. Hཧis followers on Reddit invest small amounts, among them a Pittsburgh nurse (America Ferrera) and a GameStop employee (Anthony Ramos). And as more pile in, the stock escalates, threatening billionaire hedge funder Gabe Plotkin (Seth Rogen) and others, who had bet on the company’s failure.
Adapting Ben Mezrich’s book The Antisocial Network, director🔜 Craig Gillespie (I, Tonya) tells this pandemic-era David-and-Goliath story energetically. There are things to dislike – Pete Davidson a🐈s Keith’s brother – but the good far outweighs the bad.
An excellent Dano is supported by a dreamy ensemble, including Shailene Woodley, Sebastian Stan, Nick Offerman, and Vincent D’Onofrio. In another killer turn post-Barbie, Ferrera is the heart of the film as an essential worker who refuses to buckle. A film about belief, it’s aꦕlso a morality tale, as some – though not all – of the 1% get their co꧑meuppance.
Dumb Money is in US ci༺nemas on September 15 (limited) and September 29 (wide). It hits UK cinemas on September 22.
