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Dumb Money is a 2023 American biographical comedy-drama film, directed by Craig Gillespie and written by Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo. It is based on the 2021 book The Antisocial Network by Ben Mezrich and chronicles the GameStop short squeeze of January 2021.
The movie is at its most compelling when GameStop's stock soars 1,600% — making potential investors into paper millionaires but leaving them anxious about whether to ride higher or cash out.
Director and writers reveal how they transformed the "insane true story" into a gripping comedy-drama starring Paul Dano, Pete Davidson, Seth Rogen and America Ferrara.
What happened in January 2021 with the pandemic-threatened mall chain GameStop, the subject of Craig Gillespie’s enjoyable finance comedy “Dumb Money,” is a case in point: a struggling ...
The Antisocial Network: The GameStop Short Squeeze and the Ragtag Group of Amateur Traders That Brought Wall Street to Its Knees (or simply The Antisocial Network) is a 2021 non-fiction book by Ben Mezrich about the GameStop short squeeze. The 2023 film Dumb Money is based on the book.
A GameStop store in 2014. GameStop, an American chain of brick-and-mortar video game stores, had struggled in the years leading up to the short squeeze due to competition from digital distribution services, as well as the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, which reduced the number of people who shopped in-person.
'Dumb Money' stars Paul Dano, Seth Rogen, and Vincent D'Onofrio among others. Here's how the cast compares to their real-life counterparts.
MovieStop was a retailer of new and used movies and related merchandise. It was founded in 2004 as a division of GameStop. [2] GameStop spun off MovieStop to private owners in 2012. [3] In November 2014 MovieStop was purchased by Draw Another Circle LLC, the parent company of Hastings Entertainment. [1]