Inside Job

Sony Pictures Classics Presents

INSIDE JOB
A film by Charles Ferguson

2010 Official Selections:
Cannes Film Festival | Toronto International Film Festival
Telluride Film Festival | New York Film Festival
Winner: Best Documentary, New York Film Critics Circle
Winner: Top 5 Documentaries of the Year, National Board of Review
Winner: Outstanding Directional Achievement in Documentary,Directors Guild Award
Academy Award® Winner, Best Documentary Feature

www.insidejobfilm.com
TRT: 108 min | MPAA: Rated PG-13 | Release Date: (NY) 10/8/2010 | (LA) 10/15/2010
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SYNOPSIS
From Academy Award® nominated filmmaker, Charles Ferguson (“No End In Sight”), comes INSIDE
JOB, the first film to expose the shocking truth behind the economic crisis of 2008. Theglobal financial
meltdown, at a cost of over $20 trillion, resulted in millions of people losing their homes and jobs.
Through extensive research and interviews with major financial insiders, politicians and journalists,
INSIDE JOB traces the rise of a rogue industry and unveils the corrosive relationships which have
corrupted politics, regulation and academia.

Narrated by Academy Award®winner Matt Damon, INSIDE JOB was made on location in the United
States, Iceland, England, France, Singapore, and China.
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT

This film attempts to provide a comprehensive portrayal of an extremely important and timely subject:
the worst financial crisis since the Depression, which continues to haunt us via Europe’s debt problems
and global financial instability. It was acompletely avoidable crisis; indeed for 40 years after the reforms
following the Great Depression, the United States did not have a single financial crisis. However, the
progressive deregulation of the financial sector since the 1980s gave rise to an increasingly criminal
industry, whose “innovations” have produced a succession of financial crises. Each crisis has been worse
than the last; and yet,due to the industry’s increasing wealth and power, each crisis has seen few people
go to prison. In the case of this crisis, nobody has gone to prison, despite fraud that caused trillions of
dollars in losses. I hope that the film, in less than two hours, will enable everyone to understand the
fundamental nature and causes of this problem. It is also my hope that, whatever political opinionsindividual viewers may have, that after seeing this film we can all agree on the importance of restoring
honesty and stability to our financial system, and of holding accountable those to destroyed it.

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“THE CAST”
William Ackman – Managing partner, founder, and CEO of
hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management. He is
known as an activist investor whose 2007 presentation “Who
IsHolding the Bag?” was one of the first warnings about the
impending crisis.

Daniel Alpert – Founding Managing Director of Westwood
Capital with more than 30 years of investment banking
experience, and a frequent commentator on economic policy
and financial regulation.

Jonathan Alpert - Jonathan Alpert is a Manhattan
psychotherapist and advice columnist. He has a full time
practice where hesees, among others, Wall Street executives,
professionals, and women who formerly worked as escorts
and prostitutes.

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Sigridur Benediktsdottir – Yale economics lecturer who was
tapped by the Icelandic government following the collapse of
their banking system to be one of the three members of the
Icelandic Parliament’s Special Investigation Commission
analyzing the causes and...