Set in the high-stakes world of the financial industry, Margin Call is an entangling thriller involving the key players at an investment firm during one perilous 24-hour period in the early stages of the 2008 financial crisis. When an entry-level analyst unlocks information that could prove to be the downfall of the firm, a roller-coaster ride ensues as decisions both financial and moral catapult the lives of all involved to the brink of disaster. Writer/director J.C. Chandor's enthralling first feature is a stark and bravely authentic portrayal of the financial industry and its denizens as they confront the decisions that shape our global future.
Featuring an all-star cast, Margin Call was one of the most talked about films of the Sundance Film Festival and was also the Opening Night selection of New Directors/New Films.
Director: J.C. Chandor
Starring: Kevin Spacey, Jeremy Irons, Mary McDonnell, Demi Moore, Stanley Tucci,
Reviews:
85% on the Tomatometer
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Reviewed by: Stephen Cole
Chandor's shrewdest bit of business is figuring out how to make an A-list movie with a $3.5-million budget. Solution: buy low, sell high. Hire last decade's A-list – Spacey, Irons and Demi Moore – and give them their best parts in years.
New Yorker
Reviewed by: David Denby
Margin Call is one of the strongest American films of the year and easily the best Wall Street movie ever made.
Weekly
Reviewed by: Owen Gleiberman
You could describe Margin Call as a thriller (it's wired with suspense), yet the tension all comes from words.
Arizona Republic
Reviewed by: Bill Goodykoontz
A terrific piece of entertainment. The financial lingo will please money wonks. But the film as a whole focuses more on the people and personalities who went into such a catastrophic failure.
The New York Times
Reviewed by: A.O. Scott
The accomplishment of this movie is that it allows you to sympathize with them, to acknowledge the reality of their predicament, without letting them off the hook or forgetting the damage they did.
Los Angeles Times
Reviewed by: Kenneth Turan
This confident, crisply made piece of work does an expert job of bringing us inside the inner sanctum of a top Wall Street investment bank in extremis, giving us a convincing and coolly dramatic portrait of what it must have been like when titans trembled.
Washington Post
Reviewed by: Michael O'Sullivan
Chandor's film goes a long way toward making understandable - in vivid, cinematic terms - what exactly happened to make that first big domino fall over.
Chicago Sun-Times
Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
Margin Call employs an excellent cast who can make financial talk into compelling dialogue. They also can reflect the enormity of what is happening: Their company and their lives are being rendered meaningless.
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