TY - ADVS AU - Chandor,J.C. AU - Barnum,Robert Ogden AU - Spacey,Kevin AU - Bettany,Paul AU - Irons,Jeremy AU - Quinto,Zachary AU - Badgley,Penn AU - Baker,Simon AU - Moore,Demi AU - Tucci,Stanley ED - Myriad Pictures ED - Benaroya Pictures TI - Margin call PY - 2012/// CY - Madrid PB - Cameo KW - Securities industry KW - United States KW - Drama KW - Financial crises KW - Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 N1 - Originally released as a motion picture in 2011; Director of photography, Frank DeMarco ; editor, Pete Beaudreau ; production designer, John Paino ; costume designer, Carolyn Duncan ; original music, Nathan Larson; Kevin Spacey, Paul Bettany, Jeremy Irons, Zachary Quinto, Penn Badgley, Simon Baker, Mary McDonnell, Demi Moore, Stanley Tucci; ICIC rating: 7 years or over N2 - Who cares about the suffering--existential, financial, or other--of those who blindly mismanaged our monies into this ever-expanding, nay, verily bottomless pit of debt? No one, but this film may help viewers understand A) the birth of current financial woes, and B) what it might have been like, in those first few hours within the confines of an early investment trading firm casualty. Fueled by a mass layoff, a thumb drive, and a rocket-scientist-cum-analyst who really understands the numbers, the last night of good times on Wall Street unfolds as rung by rung, up the executive ladder, travels news that is -- apocalyptic. For viewers who still have no idea of how 2008's meltdown happened, this film is one fiction that will make it ever so much more real ER -