A Period Film From … 2021?
Dumb Money captures the internet fanaticism of the GameStop-stock rush almost one year into the pandemic.
It seems the turnaround time for films that are “based on a true story” is forever shrinking. , the director Craig Gillespie’s new movie about the , chronicles events that took place in January 2021: a surprising boom in the brick-and-mortar video-game retailer’s stock value that eventually created a on Wall Street. The writer Ben Mezrich published an account of the story, , in September 2021; production on its film adaptation started a year later. This raises a
