Based on the 2010 non-fiction book based on true events, The Big Short is a Drama that portrays the effects and repercussion of the the big financial crisis in America in 2007-08, which was caused by a fracture in the United States Housing System. The movie follows the story of financial executive Michael Burry who discovers that the US mortgage backed securities market was nothing but an impending disaster.
Keeping this information into consideration, he decides to invest in a way that goes against the system. However, his Actions attract the attention of banker Jared Vennett, hedge-fund specialist Mark Baum and other greedy opportunists. Watch as these group of men make a fortune by taking full and undue advantage of the upcoming financial disaster, and enter the dark and murky world of finance and banking where corruption is key and nothing is ever for certain.