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Thursday, March 8. 2018

Survey: Most entertaining recent Wall St. movie


I thought that Margin Call and The Big Short were highly entertaining.  Did not feel the same about 1987's Wall Street, or de Caprio's Wolf of Wall St.


What have been your favorite finance dramas? 

Posted by The Barrister in The Culture, "Culture," Pop Culture and Recreation at 13:07 | Comments (12) | Trackbacks (0)

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I still remember fondly the 1963 James Garner/Lee Remick trifle, "The Wheeler-Dealers". Also well worth the time, the 1978 adaptation of Paul Erdman's novel, "The Silver Bears", with Michael Caine (the mob sends him to Switzerland to buy a bank, the better to launder their cash). Also worth a look, "Dealers", a 1981 UK movie starring Rebecca de Mornay, pretty decent movie all told. Finally, the made-for-TV movie, Barbarians at the Gate, with James Garner again, the adaptation of the book about the RJ Reynolds/Nabisco LBO. Great fun and very well done. And let's not forget "The Rollover" a 1981 movie starring Kris Kristofferson and Jane Fonda, which is likely the worst (and dumbest) movie about financial markets EVER (with incredibly poor acting, as well).
#1 Webley Silvernail on 2018-03-08 13:31 (Reply)
Book, not movie - "Storming the Magic Kingdom" About how Walt's nephew narrowly saved the Walt Disney corporation from raiders intent on spinning off the theme park, production units, back catalog and intellectual properties to separate bidders in the early 1980s.

Of course now it should have a sequel involving the Katzenberg debacle and the eventual ouster of Michael Eisner, one of the heroes of the first story.
#2 another guy named Dan on 2018-03-08 15:47 (Reply)
Trading Places.
#3 Andrew Stanton on 2018-03-08 16:51 (Reply)
Looking good, Billy Ray.
#3.1 Bulldog on 2018-03-08 17:34 (Reply)
Beat me to it!
#3.2 The Distributist (Link) on 2018-03-08 19:05 (Reply)
Not technically a finance drama...but..."The Producers"
#4 Bulldog on 2018-03-08 17:35 (Reply)
(Doc) Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room.
As with The Big Short, very entertaining; both having excellent source material.
#5 Pretentious?Moi? on 2018-03-08 18:00 (Reply)
"Other People's Money"

This company is dead. I didn't kill it. Don't blame me. It was dead when I got here. It's too late for prayers. For even if the prayers were answered, and a miracle occurred, and the yen did this, and the dollar did that, and the infrastructure did the other thing, we would still be dead. You know why? Fiber optics. New technologies. Obsolescence. We're dead alright. We're just not broke. And you know the surest way to go broke? Keep getting an increasing share of a shrinking market. Down the tubes. Slow but sure. ... You invested in a business and this business is dead. Let's have the intelligence, let's have the decency to sign the death certificate, collect the insurance, and invest in something with a future."
#6 kevino on 2018-03-08 18:47 (Reply)
Boiler Room
#7 Doug on 2018-03-08 19:13 (Reply)
My favourite finance drama is looking at 'My Portfolio' on Yahoo finance the morning after Trump does or says anything.

Some mornings it's a thrill ride up the roller coaster, sometimes a terrifying descent down, sometimes I sweat with bug eyed horror grasping the arms of my chair, sometimes I dance myself around the room.
#8 Fred Z on 2018-03-08 19:51 (Reply)
It is not a movie, but the series "Veep" on HBO is ....er....seems plausible.
#9 u.k.(us) on 2018-03-08 20:08 (Reply)
Kinda the same stuff>. The Sting.Paul Newman and Robert Redford
#10 RL on 2018-03-09 04:51 (Reply)

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