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Too Big to Fail is a 2011 American biographical drama television film directed by Curtis Hanson and written by Peter Gould, based on Andrew Ross Sorkin's 2009 non-fiction book Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System—and Themselves. The film aired on HBO on May 23, 2011. It received 11 nominations at the 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards; Paul Giamatti's portrayal of Ben Bernanke earned him the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie at the 18th Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Too Big to Fail
Television release poster
Genre	Biographical drama
Based on	Too Big to Fail by Andrew Ross Sorkin
Written by	Peter Gould
Directed by	Curtis Hanson
Starring	William Hurt Edward Asner Billy Crudup Paul Giamatti Topher Grace Cynthia Nixon Bill Pullman Tony Shalhoub James Woods
Music by	Marcelo Zarvos
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
Production
Executive producers	Paula Weinstein Jeffrey Levine Curtis Hanson
Producer	Ezra Swerdlow
Cinematography	Kramer Morgenthau
Editors	Barbara Tulliver Plummy Tucker
Running time	98 minutes
Production companies	Spring Creek Productions Deuce Three Productions
Distributor	HBO Films
Release
Original network	HBO
Original release	May 23, 2011 (2011-05-23)

Plot summary

Too Big to Fail chronicles the 2008 financial meltdown, focusing on the actions of U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the Federal Reserve System, to contain the problems during the period of August 2008 to October 13, 2008. The film starts with clips of news reports about the mortgage industry crisis and the forced sale of the troubled Bear Stearns to JPMorgan Chase, with Fed guarantees.

With Bear Stearns out of the picture, short sellers have turned their attention on Lehman Brothers. In need of capital, CEO Dick Fuld reluctantly fires COO Joe Gregory and CFO Erin Callan, naming Bart McDade as the new president and COO. McDade begins to successfully negotiate a deal with Korean investors, hinging on the condition that Lehman's toxic real estate is excluded. The deal falls through, however, when Fuld's pride gets the best of him and he tries to coerce the Koreans into accepting the real estate assets.

Paulson is adamant that the government will not subsidize any more acquisitions, but it becomes clear the most promising buyer for Lehman, Bank of America, is uninterested without Fed involvement. Paulson and President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Timothy Geithner gather the leaders of the biggest banks, including Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, and Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack, to convince them to underwrite the deal themselves. During a break in negotiations, another threatened firm, Merrill Lynch, approaches Bank of America to buy them instead, which Paulson tacitly okays. With Bank of America purchasing Merrill Lynch, the only other buyer is British firm Barclays, but their involvement is blocked by British banking regulators. Lehman collapses and is forced into bankruptcy. Meanwhile, insurance firm AIG also begins to fail.

Lehman's collapse affects the entire financial market, and the stock market goes into freefall. Blankfein, Mack, and General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt inform Paulson they are unable to do business, and French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde warns him that he must not allow AIG to fail, as the crisis is affecting Europe as well. Unlike Lehman, the Treasury rescues AIG with an $85 billion loan.

Bernanke argues that the Congress must pass legislation to authorize any continued intervention by the Fed or the Treasury. With the availability of credit drying up, Paulson's plan is to buy the toxic assets from the banks to take the risk off their books and increase their cash reserves. Bernanke and Paulson lobby Congress, with Bernanke emphasizing the potential of fallout worse than the Great Depression if they fail to act. The committee of representatives appear close to agreeing, when U.S. Senator and Presidential candidate John McCain, with great fanfare, announces that he is suspending his campaign and returning to Washington to work on the legislation, polarizing the Republicans and Democrats on the issue. Paulson has to threaten McCain not to interfere and beg the Democrats, led by Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, not to back away from the negotiations. After a wave of panic and personal haranguing from President George W. Bush, the legislation passes on a second attempt and the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) is created.

Paulson's team realizes that buying toxic assets will take too long, leaving direct capital injections to the banks as their only option to use TARP to get credit flowing again. Along with FDIC Chair Sheila Bair, Paulson informs the banks that they will receive mandatory capital injections. The banks eventually agree, but Paulson's staff laments that the parties who caused the crisis are being allowed to dictate the terms of how they should use the billions with which they are being bailed out. In private conference, Bernanke and Paulson lament that, although the intent of TARP is for the banks to use the loan money to restore credit for ordinary consumers, the legislation stops short of forcing them to do so.

An epilogue notes that the banks did not, in fact, use the loan money as intended, but instead returned it at their earliest opportunity, and the stock market still crashed and was followed by a rash of home foreclosures. Nevertheless, bank mergers continued in the wake of the crisis, and now only ten financial institutions hold 77% of all U.S. banking assets and have been declared too big to fail.

Cast

The cast includes the following:[1]

Reception

Critical reception

On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 74%, based on 27 reviews, and an average rating of 6/10.[2] On Metacritic, the movie received a weighted average score of 67/100 from 17 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[3]

The A.V. Club gave the film a B rating.[4]

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Nominee(s)	Result	Ref.
2011	Artios Awards	Outstanding Achievement in Casting – Television Movie/Mini Series	Alexa L. Fogel and Christine Kromer	Nominated	[5]
	Hollywood Post Alliance Awards	Outstanding Color Grading – Television	Kevin O'Connor	Nominated	[6]
		Outstanding Sound – Television	Michael Kirchberger, Chris Jenkins, and Bob Beemer	Nominated
	Online Film & Television Association Awards	Best Actor in a Motion Picture or Miniseries	William Hurt	Nominated	[7]
		Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture or Miniseries	Paul Giamatti	Won
		Best Direction of a Motion Picture or Miniseries	Curtis Hanson	Nominated
		Best Writing of a Motion Picture or Miniseries	Peter Gould	Nominated
		Best Ensemble in a Motion Picture or Miniseries		Nominated
	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Miniseries or Movie	Curtis Hanson, Paula Weinstein, Jeffrey Levine, Carol Fenelon, and Ezra Swerdlow	Nominated	[8]
		Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie	William Hurt	Nominated
		Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie	Paul Giamatti	Nominated
			James Woods	Nominated
		Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special	Curtis Hanson	Nominated
		Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Dramatic Special	Peter Gould	Nominated
	Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards	Outstanding Casting for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special	Alexa L. Fogel and Christine Kromer	Nominated
		Outstanding Cinematography for a Miniseries or Movie	Kramer Morgenthau	Nominated
		Outstanding Main Title Design	Michael Riley, Bob Swensen, Adam Bluming, and Cory Shaw	Nominated
		Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Miniseries or a Movie	Barbara Tulliver and Plummy Tucker	Nominated
		Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Miniseries or a Movie	Jimmy Sabat, Chris Jenkins, and Bob Beemer	Nominated
	Satellite Awards	Best Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television		Nominated	[9]
		Best Actor in a Miniseries or a Motion Picture Made for Television	William Hurt	Nominated
		Best Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for Television	James Woods	Nominated
	Television Critics Association Awards	Outstanding Achievement in Movies, Miniseries and Specials		Nominated	[10]
2012	Art Directors Guild Awards	Excellence in Production Design Award – Television Movie or Mini-Series	Bob Shaw, Miguel López-Castillo, Katya Blumenberg, Larry M. Gruber, Holly Watson, Peter Hackman, and Carol Silverman	Nominated	[11]
	Cinema Audio Society Awards	Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for Television Movies and Mini-Series	James Sabat, Chris Jenkins, Bob Beemer, and Chris Fogel	Won	[12]
	Golden Globe Awards	Best Miniseries or Television Film		Nominated	[13]
		Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film	William Hurt	Nominated
		Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film	Paul Giamatti	Nominated
	Guild of Music Supervisors Awards	Best Music Supervision for Television Long Form and Movie	Evyen Klean[lower-alpha 1]	Won
	Producers Guild of America Awards	David L. Wolper Award for Outstanding Producer of Long-Form Television	Carol Fenelon, Jeffrey Levine, and Paula Weinstein	Nominated	[14]
	Screen Actors Guild Awards	Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries	Paul Giamatti	Won	[15]
			James Woods	Nominated
	Writers Guild of America Awards	Long Form – Adapted	Peter Gould – Based on the book by Andrew Ross Sorkin	Won	[16]

Home media

The DVD was released on June 12, 2012.[17]

See also

• The Big Short
• Margin Call
• The Last Days of Lehman Brothers
• Glengarry Glen Ross
• The Hummingbird Project
• Better Call Saul, a TV series written by Peter Gould with a significant banking subplot

Notes

References

External links

• HBO Films: Too Big To Fail
• Too Big to Fail at IMDb

На других языках

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[de] Too Big to Fail – Die große Krise

Too Big to Fail – Die große Krise (Originaltitel: Too Big to Fail; zu deutsch: Zu groß zum Scheitern) ist ein US-amerikanisches Filmdrama aus dem Jahr 2011 basierend auf dem Bestseller von Andrew Ross Sorkins Die Unfehlbaren: Wie Banker und Politiker nach der Lehman-Pleite darum kämpften, das Finanzsystem zu retten – und sich selbst (Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System – and Themselves) von 2009. Wie das Buch konzentriert sich der Film auf die Finanzkrise ab 2007 und deren Schlüsselfiguren sowie deren Handlungsweisen.[1] Der namensgebende Filmtitel steht im Englischen für die Systemrelevanz von Unternehmen am Finanzsystem, bei dem eine Insolvenz aufgrund der wirtschaftlichen Rolle nicht hingenommen werden kann.

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[ru] Слишком крут для неудачи

Слишком крут для неудачи (англ. Too Big to Fail, альтернативный перевод: «Крах неприемлем: спасая Уолл-стрит») — основанный на реальных событиях телефильм режиссёра Кёртиса Хэнсона, производства Spring Creek Productions и Deuce Three Productions совместно с телекомпанией HBO, вышедший на экраны 23 мая 2011 года[2]. Снят по мотивам документальной книги Too Big to Fail (англ.) Эндрю Росса Соркина (англ.). Получил множество положительных критических отзывов, а также 11 номинаций на телепремию «Эмми»[3] и 3 номинации на премию «Золотой глобус»[4].

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