Too Big to Fail
Name: Too Big to Fail
Director: Curtis Hanson
Stars: James Woods, John Heard, William Hurt
Category: Romance
Country: US & UK
Running time: Updating...
Release date(s): 2011
Tag: Too Big to Fail
A close look behind the scenes, between late March and mid-October, 2008: we follow Richard Fuld's benighted attempt to save Lehman Brothers; conversations among Hank Paulson the Secretary of the Treasury, Ben Bernanke chair of the Federal Reserve, and Tim Geithner president of the New York Fed as they seek a private solution for Lehman's; and, back-channel negotiations among Paulson, Warren Buffet, investment bankers, a British regulator, and members of Congress as almost all work to save the U.S. economy. By the end, with the no-strings bailout arranged, modest confidence restored on Wall Street, and a meltdown averted, Paulson wonders if banks will lend.
