TY - ADVS AU - McKay,Adam AU - Randolph,Charles AU - Pitt,Brad AU - Bale,Christian AU - Carell,Steve AU - Gosling,Ryan AU - Lewis,Michael ED - Paramount Pictures Corporation ED - Regency Enterprises ED - Plan B Entertainment TI - The big short PY - 2015/// CY - Hollywood PB - Paramount Home Entertainment KW - Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 KW - Drama KW - Financial crises KW - United States KW - 21st century KW - lcgft KW - Biographical films KW - Feature films KW - Fiction films N1 - Originally released as a motion picture in 2015; Based on the book The big short : inside the doomsday machine by Michael Lewis; Director of photography, Barry Ackroyd ; production designer, Clayton Hartley ; edited by Hank Corwin ; costume designer, Susan Matheson ; music by Nicholas Britell; Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Brad Pitt; MPAA rating: R; for pervasive language and some sexuality/nudity ; Canadian Home Video rating: 14A N2 - The financial meltdown from the perspective of a number of players: Michael Burry, a bizarre autistic-like stock-picking genius, and the first to realize that the market's housing boom is based on a "house of cards" sham; Mark Baum, self-loathing fictional character whose firm picks up insider trading information from a wrong number phone call; Jared Vennet, a smart-aleck broker who confirms the ominous suspicion; and Charlie Gellar and Jamie Shipley, small-time players who hit it big ER -