Healthy Investing in the Age of Crypto, Meme Stocks, and Financial Crises
A crowd-pleasing dramatization of real-life stock hijinks featuring Paul Dano, Pete Davidson, Nick Offerman, America Ferrera, Seth Rogen, and more in its stacked cast. Q&A to follow.
Based on the wild true story of everyday people who flipped the script on Wall Street and got rich by turning the video-game store GameStop into the world's hottest company, Dumb Money is the ultimate David vs. Goliath tale. In the middle of everything is regular guy Keith Gill (Paul Dano), who starts it all by sinking his life savings into the stock and posting about it. When his social posts start blowing up, so does his life—and the lives of everyone following him. As a stock tip becomes a movement, everyone gets rich... until the billionaires fight back, and both sides find their worlds turned upside-down. [105 min; comedy, drama; English]
A Q&A with Phil Schuman (Executive Director, Office of Financial Wellness & Education), Vivian Fang (Professor of Finance and Richard E. Jacobs Chair in Finance, Kelley School of Business), and Wayne Schuman (owner and founder of Wayne R. Schuman & Associates) will follow the screening.
"Benefitting from a strong cast (and an even wiser script) Dumb Money adds a touch of wit and wildness to the tired biographical drama format we've seen on screen before." — Kristy Strouse, Film Inquiry
"Taken as a whole, Dumb Money is a pretty smart dissection of how messed up the financial system is, and why some very rich people prefer it that way." — Sean P. Means, The Movie Cricket
"It is a movie of such fun performances from every single one of the characters. Everybody is just giving it their all." — Amy Nicholson, FilmWeek
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