wall street investment

Practically ripped from the headlines, Margin Call depicts the last days and hours of a Wall Street investment firm that is about to lose its shirt.

It depicts the decisions people make in those circumstances and, perhaps most importantly, why.

Private equity firms, former executives and Wall Street investment banks profited as the Simmons Bedding Company fell into bankruptcy, devastating its bondholders and employees.

For five weeks last year, Wall Street investment houses staggered, or disintegrated outright.