Too Big to Fail
Main Street took the fall. Wall Street got the check.
2011 | 97m | English
Popularity: 4 (history)
| Director: | Curtis Hanson |
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| Writer: | Peter Gould, Andrew Ross Sorkin |
| Staring: |
| An intimate look at the epochal financial crisis of 2008 and the powerful men and women who decided the fate of the world's economy in a matter of a few weeks. | |
| Release Date: | Nov 25, 2011 |
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| Director: | Curtis Hanson |
| Writer: | Peter Gould, Andrew Ross Sorkin |
| Genres: | Drama, TV Movie |
| Keywords | wall street, finances, financial crisis, economic crisis, political scandal, secretary of the treasury, social scandal, legal scandal |
| Production Companies | Spring Creek Pictures, Deuce Three Productions, HBO Films |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Aug 09, 2025 Entered: Apr 13, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| William Hurt | Henry Paulson |
| Paul Giamatti | Ben Bernanke |
| James Woods | Dick Fuld |
| Billy Crudup | Timothy Geithner |
| Topher Grace | Jim Wilkinson |
| Matthew Modine | John Thain |
| Tony Shalhoub | John Mack |
| Bill Pullman | Jamie Dimon |
| Cynthia Nixon | Michele Davis |
| Ed Asner | Warren Buffett |
| Fiona Choi | Second Reporter |
| Evan Handler | Lloyd Blankfein |
| Joey Slotnick | Dan Jester |
| Peter Hermann | Christopher Cox |
| Michael O'Keefe | Chris Flowers |
| Maria Bartiromo | Self |
| Chance Kelly | Bart McDade |
| Ben Livingston | Investment Banker |
| Kathy Baker | Wendy Paulson |
| Amy Carlson | Erin Callan |
| Erin Dilly | Christal West |
| John Heard | Joe Gregory |
| Bea Miller | Buffett's Great Grandkid |
| Beau Baxter | Skip McGee |
| Ajay Mehta | Vikram Pandit |
| Laurence Lau | Greg Fleming |
| Ayad Akhtar | Neel Kashkari |
| Dan Hedaya | Congressman Barney Frank |
| Steve Tom | Senator Chris Dodd |
| Jonathan Freeman | Senator Richard Shelby |
| Linda Glick | Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi |
| Rutanya Alda | Admiral Evans |
| Rob Evans | Sir Christopher |
| Laila Robins | Christine Lagarde |
| Patricia Randell | Chairman Sheila Bair |
| Jennifer Van Dyck | Ruth Porat |
| Erin Burnett | Self |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Curtis Hanson | Director |
| Peter Gould | Screenplay |
| Nicki Ledermann | Makeup Department Head |
| Chris Wright | Visual Effects Producer |
| Chad Tyler | Stand In |
| Marcelo Zarvos | Original Music Composer |
| Plummy Tucker | Editor |
| Bob Shaw | Production Design |
| Greg Gilman | Second Assistant Director |
| Michael Kriston | Hair Department Head |
| Tania Ribalow | Key Makeup Artist |
| Lisa Hazell | Hairstylist |
| Chad Tomasoski | Post Production Supervisor |
| Barbara Tulliver | Editor |
| Carol Silverman | Set Decoration |
| Julie A. Bloom | First Assistant Director |
| Kat Drazen | Key Hair Stylist |
| Amanda Miller | Wigmaker |
| Cassandra Saulter | Makeup Artist |
| Sarah Connors | Post Production Supervisor |
| Katya Blumenberg | Assistant Art Director |
| Chris Jenkins | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Chris Gridley | Supervising Sound Editor |
| Michael Kirchberger | Dialogue Editor, Supervising Sound Editor |
| David A. Cohen | Dialogue Editor |
| Sheila Giroux | Visual Effects Producer |
| Cheryl Kilbourne-Kimpton | Wardrobe Supervisor |
| Shawn Petersen | Post Production Coordinator |
| Craig Hayes | First Assistant Editor |
| David O. Rogers | Assistant Editor |
| Evyen Klean | Music Supervisor |
| Veronique Lee | Script Coordinator |
| Sam Black | Researcher |
| Pierre Rovira | Construction Coordinator |
| Johnny Caruso | Music Editor |
| Bob Beemer | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Roy Waldspurger | Sound Designer |
| James Sabat | Sound Mixer |
| Elizabeth Alvarez | Visual Effects Coordinator |
| Andrew Orloff | Visual Effects Supervisor |
| Cody Shaw | Title Designer |
| Rick Derby | Assistant Editor |
| Christine Kim | Assistant Editor |
| Sarah Jean Porter | First Assistant Editor |
| Jason Farrar | Location Manager |
| Mark Baechle | Orchestrator |
| Chris Fogel | Scoring Mixer |
| Holly Unterberger | Script Supervisor |
| Kenneth Rogoff | Thanks |
| Andrew Ross Sorkin | Author |
| Kramer Morgenthau | Director of Photography |
| Alexa L. Fogel | Casting |
| Melissa Toth | Costume Designer |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Ezra Swerdlow | Producer |
| Jeff Levine | Executive Producer |
| Andrew Ross Sorkin | Co-Producer |
| Peter Gould | Co-Producer |
| Paula Weinstein | Executive Producer |
| Curtis Hanson | Executive Producer |
| Carol Fenelon | Co-Executive Producer |
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Popularity History
| Year | Month | Avg | Max | Min |
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| 2024 | 4 | 16 | 23 | 12 |
| 2024 | 5 | 18 | 33 | 11 |
| 2024 | 6 | 17 | 30 | 10 |
| 2024 | 7 | 17 | 29 | 11 |
| 2024 | 8 | 14 | 25 | 9 |
| 2024 | 9 | 12 | 17 | 8 |
| 2024 | 10 | 13 | 23 | 7 |
| 2024 | 11 | 14 | 32 | 9 |
| 2024 | 12 | 14 | 23 | 10 |
| 2025 | 1 | 13 | 26 | 9 |
| 2025 | 2 | 11 | 18 | 3 |
| 2025 | 3 | 5 | 15 | 1 |
| 2025 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 1 |
| 2025 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 1 |
| 2025 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
| 2025 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 2025 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| 2025 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
| 2025 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
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