| Duration | 1h 45m |
| Ratings | UK: 15, USA: R, Denmark: A |
| Source of story | A book “The Antisocial Network” by Ben Mezrich |
| Director | Craig Gillespie |
| Writers/Script | Lauren Schuker Blum, Rebecca Angelo |
| Starring | Paul Dano, Pete Davidson, Vincent D’Onofio, America Ferrera, Myha’la Herrold, Seth Rogan, Talia Ryder, Sebastian Stan, Shailene Woodley, Olivia Thirlby, |
| Ratings | IMDb: 7.1/10 by 7k people. Rotten Tomatoes: 84% by 204 critics. Review2view: 6.8/10. |
Plot of Dumb Money: This is a film about GameStop a quoted stock on the US stock exchange and the fact that small players, known to those in the business as “Dumb Money”, were able to use an app Robinhood, to buy and sell shares at no charge. In this situation a stock analyst Keith Gill is sacked from his day job and takes up full time advising on You Tube, calling himself Roaring Kitty. He invests his life savings in GameStock and advises his followers to do the same. The stock price is about $3.50. Meanwhile some hedge funds have shorted the stock. (Shorting – taking a contract to supply stock at some time in the future at a price which is more that the price at which the stock can be purchased at that time). The dumb money takes on the big players as the price rises to hundreds of dollars. The hedge funds lose billions. The film follows the fortunes of a number of players as well of those of Keith, the heads of the hedge funds and the owners of Robinhood.
Content of Dumb Money: No sex or nudity. Keith drinks beer a lot while making his podcasts. We see a selected number of amateur investors responding to Roaring Kitty, an employee of GameStock, a couple of lesbian students, who put their hands down each other pants and a nurse who is on her beam ends. Keith’s brother gives him a hard time, his wife is always worried. The big wheels engage in press conferences and get worried as things don’t go their way. There is some skullduggery in the financial undergrowth.
A View: This outing was not cheap and has yet to cover its production costs. In our cinema in Madrid it was assigned the smallest screen which has only nine rows, but maybe, accidentally, a superb sound system. We hung about at the end enjoying the music. Despite the fact that this is quite an obscure topic, it is a watchable film which blasts along, making the most of Paul Dano’s weirdness. So a watch if you don’t mind being baffled a bit at times.
Other money films reviewed on this site include: The Big Short, Trading Places and The Wolf of Wall Street.
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