You don't need to understand a lot about the markets to follow the film. Others are called in for an all-night emergency meeting until at dawn as a helicopter brings in CEO John Tuld ( Jeremy Irons). He contacts his supervisor, Will ( Paul Bettany), who takes one look and calls his boss, Sam ( Kevin Spacey). While the office is empty, and the survivors are out partying to celebrate not being fired, Peter realizes the firm and the market are clearly trembling on the brink. There's information on it that disturbs him. On his way out the door, Eric slips a USB drive to Peter ( Zachary Quinto), a younger analyst who wasn't fired. Chandor's film has sympathy for most of its characters, it is important to remember that they all felt they had to play along with the deals that were bringing their firms such huge profits and bonuses. One of the victims is Eric ( Stanley Tucci), a senior risks analyst who like many of his colleagues was incapable of seeing that the real estate market was built as a house of cards. "Margin Call" begins on a day at an unnamed investment firm that must certainly have an inkling of what's coming, since 80 percent of the work force is laid off.
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