Margin call
(DVD) 

Originally released as a motion picture in 2011.

Special features: Director and producer feature commentary [optional audio]; Deleted scenes [with optional commentary] (5 min.); Revolving door: Making "Margin Call" (6 min.); Missed calls: Moments with cast & crew (1 min.); From the deck: photo gallery [slide show] (4 min.); Also from Lionsgate (8 min.).

Director of photography, Frank DeMarco ; editor, Pete Beaudreau ; production designer, John Paino ; costume designer, Carolyn Duncan ; original music, Nathan Larson.

Kevin Spacey, Paul Bettany, Jeremy Irons, Zachary Quinto, Penn Badgley, Simon Baker, Mary McDonnell, Demi Moore, Stanley Tucci, Aasif Mandvi, Ashley Williams, Susan Blackwell, Maria Dizzia.

Who cares about the suffering -- existential, financial, or other -- of those who blindly mismanaged our monies into this ever-expanding, nay, verily bottomless pit of debt? No one, but this film may help viewers understand A) the birth of current financial woes, and B) what it might have been like, in those first few hours within the confines of an early investment trading firm casualty. Fueled by a mass layoff, a thumb drive, and a rocket-scientist-cum-analyst who really understands the numbers, the last night of good times on Wall Street unfolds as rung by rung, up the executive ladder, travels news that is -- apocalyptic. For viewers who still have no idea of how 2008's meltdown happened, this film is one fiction that will make it ever so much more real.

DVD format; region 1; 5.1 Dolby Digital EX; widescreen presentation, 1.78:1 aspect ratio, for 16x9 televisions.

In English with optional subtitles in English or Spanish; closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.