Inside Job (2010)
Documentary, Crime.
Inside Job is a documentary film, directed by Charles Ferguson, about the late-2000s financial crisis. Ferguson, who began researching in 2008, says the film is about “the systemic corruption of the United States by the financial services industry and the consequences of that systemic corruption”.
Filmmaker Charles Ferguson, comes Inside Job, the first film to expose the shocking truth behind the economic crisis of 2008. The global financial meltdown, at a cost of over $20 trillion, resulted in millions of people losing their homes and jobs.
Through extensive research and interviews with major financial insiders, politicians and journalists, the film traces the rise of a rogue industry and unveils the corrosive relationships which have corrupted politics, regulation and academia. Narrated by Matt Damon, Inside Job was made on location in the United States, Iceland, England, France, Singapore, and China.
Director: Charles Ferguson
Writers: Charles Ferguson, Chad Beck, Adam Bolt
Stars: Matt Damon, Gylfi Zoega, Andri Snær Magnason, Sigridur Benediktsdottir, Paul Volcker, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, George Soros
►Cast:
| Matt Damon | ► | Self – Narrator (voice) |
| Gylfi Zoega | ► | Self – Professor of Economics, University of Iceland |
| Andri Snær Magnason | ► | Self – Writer & Filmmaker |
| Sigridur Benediktsdottir | ► | Self – Special Investigative Committee, Icelandic Parliament |
| Paul Volcker | ► | Self – Former Federal Reserve Chairman |
| Dominique Strauss-Kahn | ► | Self – Managing Director, International Monetary Fund |
| George Soros | ► | Self – Chairman, Soros Fund Management |
| Barney Frank | ► | Self – Chairman, Financial Services Committee |
| David McCormick | ► | Self – Under Secretary of the Treasury, Bush Administration |
| Scott Talbott | ► | Self – Chief Lobbyist, Financial Services Roundtable |
| Andrew Sheng | ► | Self – Chief Adviser, China Banking Regulatory Commission |
| Hsien Loong Lee | ► | Self – Prime Minister, Singapore |
| Christine Lagarde | ► | Self – Finance Minister, France |
| Gillian Tett | ► | Self – U.S. Managing Editor, The Financial Times |
| Nouriel Roubini | ► | Self – Professor, NYU Business School |
| R. Glenn Hubbard | ► | Self – Chief Economic Adviser, Bush Administration |
| Eliot Spitzer | ► | Self – Former Governor, New York |
| Samuel Hayes | ► | Self – Professor Emeritus of Investment Banking, Harvard Business School |
| Charles Morris | ► | Self – Author, The Two Trillion Dollar Meltdown |
| Robert Gnaizda | ► | Self – Former Director, Greenlining Institute |
| Willem Buiter | ► | Self – Chief Economist, Citigroup |
| Andrew Lo | ► | Self – Professor & Director, MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering |
| Michael Greenberger | ► | Self – Former Deputy Director, Commodity Futures Trading Commission |
| Satyajit Das | ► | Self – Derivatives Consultant |
| Frank Partnoy | ► | Self – Professor of Law & Finance, University of California San Diego |
| Eric Halperin | ► | Self – Director, Center for Responsible Learning |
| Martin Wolf | ► | Self – Chief Economics Commentator, The Financial Times |
| Kenneth Rogoff | ► | Self – Professor of Economics, Harvard (as Prof. Ken Rogoff) |
| Daniel Alpert | ► | Self – Managing Director, Westwood Capital |
| Raghuram Rajan | ► | Self – Chief Economist, International Monetary Fund |
| Lawrence McDonald | ► | Self – Former Vice President, Lehman Brothers |
| Harvey Miller | ► | Self – Lehman’s Bankruptcy Lawyer |
| Jeffrey Lane | ► | Self – Vice Chairman, Lehman Brothers |
| Jonathan Alpert | ► | Self – Therapist |
| Kristin Davis | ► | Self – Manhattan Madam |
| Allan Sloan | ► | Self – Senior Editor, Fortune Magazine |
| William Ackman | ► | Self – Hedge Fund Manager (as Bill Ackman) |
| Jerome Fons | ► | Self – Former Managing Director, Moody’s Rating Agency |
| Frederic Mishkin | ► | Self – Governor, Federal Reserve |
| Simon Johnson | ► | Self – Professor, MIT |
| Joanna Xu | ► | Self – Former Factory Worker |
| Patrick Daniel | ► | Self – Editor-in-Chief, Singapore Press Holdings |
| Columba Ramos | ► | Self – Victim of Fraud |
| Eric Evanouskas | ► | Self – Volunteer, Catholic Charities |
| Steven A. Stephen | ► | Self – Former Construction Worker |
| Martin Feldstein | ► | Self – Professor of Economics, Harvard |
| John Campbell | ► | Self – Chairman, Harvard Economics Department |
| Ben Bernanke | ► | Self (archive footage) |
| George W. Bush | ► | Self (archive footage) |
| Timothy Geithner | ► | Self (archive footage) |
| Alan Greenspan | ► | Self (archive footage) |
| Barack Obama | ► | Self (archive footage) |
| Henry Waxman | ► | Self (archive footage) |
| Ann Curry | ► | Self (archive footage) |