![]() ![]() ![]() Based on the 2010 book The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis with a screenplay by McKay and Charles Randolph (“ Love and Other Drugs”), the film centers on a group of Wall Street functionaries who, despite the industry, government, and media telling them otherwise, discover that the market for bonds based on subprime mortgages is on shaky grounds and is doomed to collapse. ![]() Though most of the time these naysayers will not profit from your misfortune, such is not the case in The Big Short, Adam McKay’s (“ Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues”) hard-hitting comedy/drama about the collapse of the housing market in 2008. When everything in your life is looking rosy, there is always someone who will tell you that your happiness is on shaky ground. ![]()
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