IMDb plot summary: Follows the key people at an investment bank over a 24-hour period during the early stages of the 2008 financial crisis.
Directed by J.C. Chandor. Starring Zachary Quinto, Stanley Tucci, and Kevin Spacey.
Margin Call is set in an investment bank in the early stages of the 2007-2008 recession. A group of employees realize that things are about to collapse and escalate this information to the higher-ups. Turns out, the only way to save the company is by getting rid of their assets as quickly as possible before but they become valueless, which of course screws over all the people the bank works with, and that doesn't sit well with everyone. This is a tightly written thriller that manages to contain all its drama in one location at one point in time. I always admire films that can keep that narrow focus and still remain riveting -- it's the theater nerd in me. The film does a good job of giving glimpses at each of these characters as they're confronted with this moral question, even if it doesn't have the time to fully flush all of them out, and that's enough for it to be a really satisfying watch. Also... is this the least sleazy person Kevin Spacey has ever played? It may be. It's a film that kept me interested through the whole run time and never felt slow or made me impatient for something else to happen. Well-written, well-acted, well-directed.
How it entered my Flickchart:
Margin Call > Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
Margin Call > Kuroneko
Margin Call < Castle in the Sky
Margin Call < The Pawnbroker
Margin Call > City Lights
Margin Call > Pig
Margin Call < Megamind
Margin Call < Don't Drink the Water
Margin Call > Sleight
Margin Call < Bubba Ho-tep
Margin Call > Take This Waltz
Final spot: #731 out of 3648, or 80%.
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