7.2

Too Big to Fail

2010, USA

• Actors: James Woods, John Heard, William Hurt, Erin Dilly, Amy Carlson, Topher Grace, Ayad Akhtar, Cynthia Nixon, Kathy Baker, Edward Asner, Paul Giamatti, Beau Baxter, Ben Livingston, Erin Burnett, Chance Kelly, Chil Kong, Daniel K. Isaac, Billy Crudup, James Saito, Maria Bartiromo, Michael O'Keefe, Victor Slezak, Chandra Thomas, Tom Mason, Peter Hermann, Joey Slotnick, Bill Pullman, Evan Handler, Tony Shalhoub, Matthew Modine
• Genre: Drama
• Director(s): Curtis Hanson
• Available languages:
  • English English.

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.

  6.5

Veronika Decides to Die

2009, USA

• Actors: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jonathan Tucker, Erika Christensen, Florencia Lozano, Rena Owen, Erica Gimpel, Victor Slezak, Barbara Sukowa, Victor Steinbach, Melissa Leo, David Thewlis, Virl Andrick, Jeff Applegate, Lisette Bross, Matthew Cowles, Jill Dalton, Meg Gibson, Holter Graham, Nicolette Hart, Ward Horton, Jessica Kaye, Amanda LaPergola, Jill Marie Lawrence, Gregory Marcel, Adrian Martinez, Lisa Ramirez, Al Roffe, Stuart Rudin, Tania Santiago, Rafael Sardina
• Genre: Drama
• Director(s): Emily Young
• Available languages:
  • English English.

The story centers on Veronika, a woman in her mid twenties who appears to have everything: good looks, good job and a great life ahead of her. Yet she decides to end her own life. She is unsuccessful and awakens in a mental hospital where she learns that she a short time to live. However in the hospital she meets people who are only 'insane' because they don't always follow society's rules. With little left to lose, Veronika embarks on a journey on which she frees herself to experience relationships and emotions and ultimately discovers what it means to live.

  6.8

Rachel Getting Married

2008, USA

• Actors: Sebastian Stan, Roslyn Ruff, Anne Hathaway, Bill Irwin, Anna Deavere Smith, Annaleigh Ashford, Zafer Tawil, Beau Sia, Innbo Shim, Eliza Simpson, Olive, Rosemarie DeWitt, Anisa George, Tamyra Gray, Victoria Haynes, Quincy Tyler Bernstine, Mather Zickel, Mel Jones, Darrell Larson, Michelle Federer, Matt Stadelmann, Molly Hickok, Big Jim Wheeler, Josh Broder, Stephen Richardson, Bruce Bennetts, Paul Sparks, Caroline Goodman-Thomases, Daniel Wolff, Jill Dalton
• Genre: Drama, Romance
• Director(s): Jonathan Demme
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Kym is released from rehab for a few days so she can go home to attend her sister Rachel's wedding. The home environment is always challenging for a recovering addict, no less so when the visit if only for a few days. While the sisters feel genuine affection for one another, there is tension in their relationship. Rachel feels that her father dotes on Kym far too much and Kym is upset to learn that Rachel has selected a friend to be her maid of honor. Their father is genuinely concerned about Kym's well-being but doesn't see the stress the relationship is causing. Both women also have to deal with their selfish mother who is clearly more concerned with her own well-being ahead of that of her children. Underlying the family's dynamic is a tragedy that occurred many years previously and for which Kym is held by some to be responsible.

  7.3

Wall Street

1986, USA

• Actors: Charlie Sheen, Tamara Tunie, Franklin Cover, Chuck Pfeiffer, John C. McGinley, Hal Holbrook, James Karen, Leslie Lyles, Michael Douglas, Faith Geer, Frank Adonis, John Capodice, Martin Sheen, Suzen Murakoshi, Dani Klein, François Giroday, Josh Mostel, Ann Talman, Lisa Zebro, Rocco Anacarola, Martin Sherman, Monique van Vooren, Derek Keir, Andrea Thompson, Lauren Tom, George Blumenthal, Terence Stamp, George Vlachos, Liliane Montevecchi, Ronald von Klaussen
• Genre: Crime, Drama
• Director(s): Oliver Stone
• Available languages:
  • English English.

Bud Fox is a Wall Street stockbroker in early 1980's New York with a strong desire to get to the top. Working for his firm during the day, he spends his spare time working an on angle with the high-powered, extremely successful (but ruthless and greedy) broker Gordon Gekko. Fox finally meets with Gekko, who takes the youth under his wing and explains his philosophy that "Greed is Good". Taking the advice and working closely with Gekko, Fox soon finds himself swept into a world of "yuppies", shady business deals, the "good life", fast money, and fast women; something which is at odds with his family including his estranged father and the blue-collared way Fox was brought up.