Dumb Money
DUMB MONEY tells the story of fortunes won and lost overnight in the David-vs.-Goliath GameStop short squeeze that might have ended up changing Wall Street forever. It offers a gripping portrayal of how a loosely affiliated group of private investors and internet trolls on a subreddit called WallStreetBets took down one of the biggest hedge funds on Wall Street, firing the first shot in a revolution that threatened to upend the establishment.
DIRECTOR: Craig Gillespie
WRITERS: Lauren Schuker Blum & Rebecca Angelo, based on “The Antisocial Network” by Ben Mezrich
PRODUCERS: Aaron Ryder, Craig Gillespie, Teddy Schwartzman
CAST: Paul Dano, Pete Davidson, Vincent D’Onofrio, America Ferrera, Nick Offerman, Anthony Ramos, Sebastian Stan, Shailene Woodley, and Seth Rogen
PRODUCTION COMPANIES: Ryder Picture Company, Black Bear Pictures
DISTRIBUTED BY: Sony Pictures Entertainment
FESTIVALS: Toronto International Film Festival 2023
REVIEWS
Dumb Money Is an Entertaining Rehash of the GameStop Stock Boom
Richard Lawson , Vanity Fair // September 9, 2023
Dumb Money is a sturdy entry into the developing canon of docufiction that seeks to be lively and lucid and informative about the rotten state of the American dream.
Paul Dano Outsmarts Seth Rogen In Hilarious And Smart Movie On The GameStop Stock Phenomenon
Pete Hammond, Deadline // September 8, 2023
What a story. What a wildly entertaining, stand-up-and-cheer populist movie. Capra would love it.
GameStop drama makes for a fun financial rom
Bejamin Lee , The Guardian // September 9, 2023
It’s a rare film about digital culture that feels well-modulated, as accessible for those within it as it is for those blissfully unaware.
‘Dumb Money’ Turns the GameStop Saga Into the Gen Z ‘Big Short’
David Fear, Rolling Stone // September 11, 2023
Gillespie and his movie-star cast aren’t trying to short squeeze the topic for statuettes. They’re just laying out what happened, why it happened, and why it mattered in the most audience-friendly manner imaginable, then take the whole thing to the moon.
Dumb Money,’ the inevitable GameStop surge movie, injects laughs into a class war
Robert Abele , Los Angeles Times // September 15, 2023
Gillespie captures a hot-topic milieu of desperation and excitement populated by schemers. His love of actors is a plus, but his understanding of how they mix foibles, charms, and fears is uncommonly good.
