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Too Big to Fail
Directed by
Curtis Hanson
R
2011
1h 37m
Drama
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7.2
77%
75%
7.0
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Chronicles the financial meltdown of 2008 and centers on Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson.
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Cast of Too Big to Fail
James Woods
Dick Fuld
John Heard
Joe Gregory
William Hurt
Henry Paulson
Paul Giamatti
Ben Bernanke
Billy Crudup
Timothy Geithner
Topher Grace
Jim Wilkinson
Matthew Modine
John Thain
Tony Shalhoub
John Mack
Bill Pullman
Jamie Dimon
Ed Asner
Warren Buffett
Evan Handler
Lloyd Blankfein
Joey Slotnick
Dan Jester
Peter Hermann
Christopher Cox
Michael O'Keefe
Chris Flowers
Maria Bartiromo
Self
Erin Dilly
Christal West
Amy Carlson
Erin Callan
Ayad Akhtar
Neel Kashkari
Cynthia Nixon
Michele Davis
Kathy Baker
Wendy Paulson
Too Big to Fail Ratings & Reviews
AV Club
Scott Tobias
Without taking an partisan position on what happened... Too Big To Fail simply and clearly explicates a chilling moment in recent history. And for that, it has value.
The Playlist
Kevin Jagernauth
What keeps Too Big To Fail from being a dry run through recent history is its lightning pace, in which the stakes of the nation remain keenly at the forefront.
Uproxx
Alan Sepinwall
Takes a topic that could have felt like homework and turns it into effective entertainment - even if that entertainment might teach you something along the way.
Collider
Andre Dellamorte
Unfortunately, though the film tries to get across all the machinations as swiftly and as simply as possible, it's a lot of people sitting around and talking... It's just... all at the service of delivering exposition.
The New Republic
David Thomson
Just a dramatized synopsis in which some noble cynics guard our citadel. It is hardboiled-instead of admitting that the egg just exploded.
Los Angeles Times
Walter Hamilton
The movie... captures the frustration of government officials as each hole they patched was followed by an even bigger leak.
TIME Magazine
Roya Wolverson
HBO's rendition of the Wall Street meltdown still manages to feel fresh, entertaining, and even educational. But does it get to the point?
Slant Magazine
Jaime N. Christley
You know you're in trouble when you're watching a film and, in real time, in your mind's eye, you're watching some alternate film that's much better - more daring, more fun, more something, but most importantly, a different film.
Boston Globe
Matthew Gilbert
Too Big to Fail is a chronicle of recent events... But it fails to transform those events into anything valuable or special, beyond docudramatic re-creation. Ultimately, it's scope is too big, and it fails.
Washington Post
Hank Stuever
The movie may do an adequate job of mining what's left of our collective outrage, but it comes up short as an artistic expression of post-recession catharsis.
Los Angeles Times
Robert Lloyd
Pretty consistent low-key entertainment if not exactly enlightening (because it is an impersonation of the truth) or gripping (because we already know how it sort of ends).
Slate
Troy Patterson
The movie is a tense vignette with a nonending.
Variety
Brian Lowry
At its best, Too Big to Fail captures the inherent dysfunction in the system, which ensures that a perfect solution - especially against the backdrop of an election year - is never an option.
Wall Street Journal
Nancy DeWolf Smith
The ride is engrossing. And successful, in that it is bound to leave most viewers with a better grasp of the sequence of events that unfolded in 2008.
New York Times
Michael Kinsley
This version of events is largely correct, I think, and the movie tells it with exemplary clarity. I've never come closer than the two minutes after watching Too Big to Fail to understanding what a "credit default swap" is.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Rob Owen
If not for the seriousness of the situation - the potential for a new Great Depression - Too Big to Fail could play as a black comedy.
San Francisco Chronicle
David Wiegand
Director Curtis Hanson paces the whole thing like a thriller, as if the fate of the entire world were at stake. By the end, even if we don't entirely understand the complexity of the threat, we're convinced that's exactly how serious the crisis was.
The Hollywood Reporter
Tim Goodman
In a cast full of beautifully minimalist performances from superb actors, William Hurt gets to remind viewers who might have otherwise forgot just how great he can be.
New York Daily News
David Hinckley
Whether you agree or disagree, the film sorts out a complex situation in simple and human terms.
Entertainment Weekly
Ken Tucker
What could have been a snoozy jeremiad becomes something closer to a thriller.
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