Film of the week
Dumb Money
Directed by Craig Gillespie Screenplay by Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo Now showing in cinemas, cert 15
Changes in the share price of individual companies rarely make the front pages, but in January 2021, the meteoric rise of the stock of GameStop, a troubled videogame retailer, made headlines around the world. Its share price soared from $17.25 at the start of the year to a, based on the book by Ben Mezrich, and directed by Craig Gillespie, tells a fictionalised version of this story.
