2011 · drama · tv-movie · history
Too Big to Fail
Directed by Curtis Hanson1h 37m2011
An intimate look at the epochal financial crisis of 2008 and the powerful men and women who decided the fate of the world's economy in a matter of a few weeks.
Our read: Too Big to Fail (2011) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded drama · tv-movie · history entry — gentle in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, gentle drama / tv-movie, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, cold.
- sombre
- brisk
- gentle
- cold
- epic-stakes
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