Dallas Videofest 2009 - American Casino

November 5

7 PM

Angelika Film Center & Cafe

5321 East Mockingbird Lane, Dallas

Age Limit

N/A

89 min.

It was a subprime mortgage gamble and the working-class were unwitting chips on the table. This debut feature gets to the guts of the matter by explaining how $8 trillion vanished into the American Casino. We hear from a teacher, a banker who sold us out, a mortgage salesman who inflated incomes to justify loans, and a billionaire who won a $500 million bet that people would lose their homes. We see the casino's endgame: Riverside, California, a foreclosure wasteland of rats and meth labs, where mosquitoes breed in stagnant swimming pools of yesterday's dreams.

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