Dumb Money

Watch: Dumb Money

9/15/20231h 45m

Theatrical (limited) Release (US)

~ When Wall Street rigged the game, he changed it. ~

Overview:

Vlogger Keith Gill sinks his life savings into GameStop stock and posts about it. When social media starts blowing up, so do his life and the lives of everyone following him. As a stock tip becomes a movement, everyone gets rich—until the billionaires fight back, and both sides find their worlds turned upside down.

Director:

Craig Gillespie

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$30,000,000.00

Revenue:

$20,703,794.00

Key words:

massachusetts
manipulation of the media
based on true story
securities, stocks and bonds
stock price
social media
stock market
meditative
dramedy
philosophical
investing
investment
stockholder
stock swindle
insider trading
vlogger
brother brother relationship
internet scam
social media influencer
finance trading
inspirational
critical
internet personality
intense
gamestop
audacious
defiant
dignified
earnest
instructive
powerful
urgent
2020s

Cast

Paul Dano

~ as ~

Keith Gill

Shailene Woodley

~ as ~

Caroline Gill

America Ferrera

~ as ~

Jenny Campbell

Pete Davidson

~ as ~

Kevin Gill

Seth Rogen

~ as ~

Gabe Plotkin

Myha'la

~ as ~

Riri

Talia Ryder

~ as ~

Harmony Williams

Anthony Ramos

~ as ~

Marcos Garcia

Nick Offerman

~ as ~

Ken Griffin

Sebastian Stan

~ as ~

Vlad Tenev

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Reviews (3)

CinemaSerf
Written 2 year(s) ago
6
To be perfectly honest, I have never quite understood how you could make money buying stock in a company that you actually wanted to go bust! I watched this and I'm still not really any the wiser. It all centres around the internet influencer Keith Gill (Paul Dano) who quite fancied the undervalued stock in a video game store called "GameStop". He started to suggest to his followers that this was a decent buy - despite the fairly obvious fact that the venture capitalists were selling the company short with a view to it collapsing. Slowly but surely the word spreads and the stock starts to rise. What now ensues is a worm that turns story as the gazillionaires at their polo clubs find these gadfly small investors really are becoming a fly in their vichyssoise. Can the little guy prevail? This is quite an enjoyably paced drama with it's roots in reality but for me, the acting was really lacklustre and it drew a really simplistically linear distinction between the have and the have nots that didn't really intrigue my brain. It certainly demonstrates the power of the internet and that galvanising the population can easily buck some established business practices but somehow I didn't especially admire the little guys here either - they were to varying degrees just as aspirational, wanted what the rich guys had and didn't much care how they got it! Still, it's enjoyable enough to watch but I'd wait til it is on the television
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rsanek
Written 1 year(s) ago
4
Mostly just a feel-good story. Hilarious to have the ending somehow act like this changed things and totally ignore crypto, which is really the next thing that these kinds of retail investors went towards.
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tmdb51616167
Written 1 year(s) ago
6
In general, I found the film to be passable. While they did a commendable job presenting the material, I couldn't help but find the lead character, Kitty, quite dull. His portrayal felt flat and uninspiring, making me eager for his scenes to end.

The film provided some interesting information and sparked enjoyable exchanges, but there were instances where it felt monotonous and unexciting. Overall, I'd say the movie was alright, but it's not something I would choose to watch again.