American Casino

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American Casino

Released Aug 14, 2009

1h 29m

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A look into how the Wall Street meltdown affected workers.

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American Casino presents the causes and effects of the American banking crisis with just enough clarity and rage to overcome its flaws.

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David Fear

Time Out

Rated: 2/5

Nov 18, 2011

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Ben Kenigsberg

Time Out

Rated: 3/5

Nov 17, 2011

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Jonathan F. Richards

Film.com

The Cockburns paint a picture of a financial world devoid of morality and scruples, a culture in which reckless disregard of reason and caution led to a towering house of cards that could only come crashing down.

Nov 22, 2009

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John Powers

NPR's Fresh Air

This smart, touching documentary traces the connections between Wall Street's high-flying practices and the countless citizens on Main Street who now face bankruptcy and eviction.

May 17, 2018

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Michael Sragow

Baltimore Sun

It's a nightmare that starts like a normal daytime drive and ends in a vortex-like sinkhole.

Rated: 3.5/4

Nov 13, 2009

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Peter Keough

Boston Phoenix

Putting a face on the incomprehensible figures, the film takes a look at some of the victims, middle-class professionals who bought into the dream of home ownership and lost everything.

Rated: 3/4

Oct 29, 2009

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this film does what no other film which covered the Wall Street CDOs and other scams ever attempted....to bring in the HUMAN story of those who were used to satisfy the need for greed...the targets who were the mortgage holders who were used by mortgage corps & banks to sell sell sell. This film as no other explains HOW this happend and why the actual victims ended up being blamed for the thefts and crimes of the financial industry which we, the tax payers Bailed out in order to keep this house of cards from collapsing entirely. Most instructive.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/16/23

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Synopsis

A look into how the Wall Street meltdown affected workers.

Director: Leslie Cockburn
Producer: Andrew Cockburn, Leslie Cockburn
Screenwriter: Andrew Cockburn, Leslie Cockburn
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 14, 2009, Original
Box Office (Gross USA): $50.9K
Runtime: 1h 29m