Starring: Paul Dano, Pete Davidson, Vincent D’Onofrio, America Ferrera, Nick Offerman, Anthony Ramos, Sebastian Stan, Shailene Woodley, Seth Rogen
OUR RATING: ★★★☆☆
Story:
Bio-comedy drama directed by Craig Gillespie. Based on the true story of everyday people who flipped the script on Wall Street and got rich by turning GameStop into the world’s hottest company. Dumb Money (2023) follows regular guy Keith Gill (Paul Dano), who starts it all by sinking his life savings into the stock and posting about it. When his social posts start blowing up, so does his life and the lives of everyone following him. As a stock tip becomes a movement, everyone gets rich, until the billionaires fight back, and both sides find their worlds turned upside down.
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Best Quotes
Gabe Plotkin: I think we’re having some sort of miscommunication here because I’m not trying to move into that house. I’m trying to tear that house down so I can build a tennis court for me and my family to play during the pandemic. I thought it would be very simple. Apparently, it isn’t because the pandemic is almost over, and there’s no tennis court. Thank you for your time.
Steve Cohen: It looks like there’s one guy driving all the buying.
Gabe Plotkin: What guy?
Steve Cohen: I believe his name is Roaring Kitty. Oh, wait. Or DeepF***ingValue.
Gabe Plotkin: “Roaring Kitty” or “DeepF***ingValue”? What?
Steve Cohen: He’s “Roaring Kitty” on YouTube and “DeepF***ingValue” on Reddit.
Gabe Plotkin: Both? He couldn’t pick one name?
Steve Cohen: I don’t know. I love this guy.
Gabe Plotkin: [referring to Keith] Who is this schmuck?
Steve Cohen: I don’t know, but I think I just came.
Briggsy: How’s your a**hole brother?
Keith Gill: Still an a**hole.
Briggsy: GameStop? Dude.
Keith Gill: You used to love GameStop.
Briggsy: Yeah, then I grew up.
Briggsy: You never bet against Wall Street.
Keith Gill: Wall Street gets it wrong all the time. Look at ’08.
Briggsy: That was a one-off, Kitty.
Keith Gill: These guys, they have all the money, and the fancy degrees, and the political juice in the world, and they get it wrong all the time.
Briggsy: Are you out of your f***ing mind?
Keith Gill: They got the advantage, and they still get it wrong.
Briggsy: [referring to Keith] Well, my man just spent fifty-three K on a penny stock, so all he can afford is water.
Waitress at Bar: [referring to Keith] He won’t spend five bucks for a beer, but he’ll put fifty K in a stock that you think is a joke.
Briggsy: And that’s interesting to you?
Waitress at Bar: Yeah. It is.
Caroline Gill: [to Keith, referring to GameStop] Babe, you literally know more about this damn company than you know about me. It’s true. And because of you, I know more about this company than I know about myself.
Caroline Gill: Go see what the nerds have to say.
Keith Gill: WallStreetBets people aren’t nerds. Caroline, they’re gangsters. You make a dumb case and post it, they’ll rip you apart.
Caroline Gill: Well, then don’t make a dumb case.
Keith Gill: Here’s what I want to talk about. I’m going to pick a stock and talk about why I think it’s interesting. And that stock is GameStop.
'I think everyone else is crazy, and I think I'm right. But I've been wrong plenty of times in the past, so.' - Keith Gill (Dumb Money) Share on X
Chris: [referring to Keith] Hey, Jenny, for real, I wouldn’t take investment advice from a guy in a cat shirt.
Jenny: Oh, okay. Who do you take investment advice from?
Chris: I don’t have investments. And if I did, I’d listen to like a banker.
Jenny: Just the way they like it.
Chris: “They”.
Jenny: Okay, fine. Wall Street is betting that this company is going to fail. It’s called shorting. And if it fails, well, then everybody loses their job. But these hedge fund a**holes make a s**t ton of money. It’s bulls**t. It’s a bulls**t way for rich people to get richer.
Chris: Jenny, baby, you’re never going to find a man on there.
Jenny: And you’re never going to date Puff Daddy.
Chris: First of all, no one has said “Puff Daddy” since the ’90s. And second of all, this isn’t Puff Daddy. This is Loop Daddy.
Keith Gill: Wall Street must be seeing this, right? Or are we just screaming into the void?
Gabe Plotkin: Is this a video of a man drinking his own urine because a stock went up?
Steve Cohen: Number one post on the site.
Steve Cohen: I think they think it’s a good investment.
Gabe Plotkin: Retail traders always lose. We’ve actually been short GameStop since 2014. The company is a complete disaster. They’ve had six CEOs in two years. Guess these guys are ignoring obvious secular market trends, or they’re the stupidest people on Earth.
Steve Cohen: You’re shorting more right now, aren’t you?
Steve Cohen: Dumb money, man.
Gabe Plotkin: I’m happy to take it.
Harmony Williams: It’s not about the money.
Riri: The stock market is not about the money?
Elaine Gill: Boys, never retire. Keith, never retire. Kevin, if you ever get a job, never retire.
Kevin Gill: I have a job.
Keith Gill: Yet you still live with Ma and Dad.
Kevin Gill: Oh, you’re some big professional now because you’re f***ing king dork on YouTube?
Keith Gill: Just one of many dorks.
Kevin Gill: This a**hole thinks he’s Jimmy Buffett now.
Keith Gill: Warren Buffett. Warren Buffett.
Kevin Gill: See? You’re not either of the Buffetts, Kitty.
Gabe Plotkin: “Borrower is slave to the lender.”
Ken Griffin: Is that Buffett?
Gabe Plotkin: It’s the Bible. Proverbs.
Gabe Plotkin: You sound like you’re preparing for war.
Ken Griffin: I’m a man of the people.
Gabe Plotkin: You rented out a resort, relocated your entire firm here so you could stay open during lockdown.
Ken Griffin: Says the man who flew his whole firm down private just for a party.
'That is the smartest, dumbest thing I've ever heard.' - Ken Griffin (Dumb Money) Share on X
Brad: A lot of really smart people in corporate put this plan together.
Marcos Garcia: Yeah, but have any of them ever played a video game?
Brad: It doesn’t matter, Marcos, because they own our a**es.
Marcos Garcia: Yoh, they don’t own my a**, so.
Brad: They do. And they always will.
Marcos Garcia: You ever heard of a short squeeze?
Brad: Is that a sexual thing?
Marcos Garcia: No.
Stephen Colbert: The revolutionaries on Reddit are spanking Wall Street’s a**.
Keith Gill: We f***ing did it. We started from the bottom, and now we’re here!
Kevin Gill: Eleven f***ing million dollars?! What the f***?!
Keith Gill: Oh, language. The baby’s here.
Kevin Gill: Keith, you get a f***ing diamond! If I were you, I’d look like DJ Khaled right now.
Keith Gill: Kev, it’s not real. I mean, it’s real, but it’s just paper.
Kevin Gill: Just on paper?
Kevin Gill: What the f*** is wrong with you? I’m riding Mom’s bike every day to Dorchester to drop off cheeseburgers because you won’t let me use your f***ing car, and you’re Mr. “Oh, I won’t sell and take millions of dollars”.
Keith Gill: And, well, what you do with your life is your choice.
Caroline Gill: I mean, eleven million dollars is a lot of f***ing dough.
'We may be hyenas, yes. But guess what. You put enough of us together, and we can destroy a lion.' - Marcos Garcia (Dumb Money) Share on X
Kevin Gill: My brother is a f***ing nerd.
Gabe Plotkin: There’s more of these idiots?
Steve Cohen: A lot more.
Gabe Plotkin: They won’t hold much longer.
Steve Cohen: Oh, Gabe, honey, they’re holding. It just crossed a hundred.
David Faber: I mean, what’s going on at GameStop right now conceivably could take a couple of firms out, hedge funds, if they were stupid enough to be short.
Caroline Gill: Babe, how much did we make today?
Keith Gill: Five million.
Caroline Gill: And yesterday?
Keith Gill: Four million.
Caroline Gill: Babe.
Keith Gill: Yeah?
Caroline Gill: We’re like really f***ing rich.
Yaara Plotkin: How much did we lose today?
Gabe Plotkin: A billion.
Yaara Plotkin: And yesterday?
Gabe Plotkin: A billion.
'What's the point of winning the race if you let some dips**t steal the prize?' - Kevin Gill (Dumb Money) Share on X
David Faber: From what I’m hearing, you guys are bankrupt.
Gabe Plotkin: No. What? No.
David Faber: Because the word on the street is that you’re drowning.
Gabe Plotkin: No, that’s crazy. We’re doing great.
David Faber: You’re on the record with that?
Gabe Plotkin: Obviously.
Steve Cohen: [to Gabe] Let me guess, you need cash.
Jenny: [referring to Keith] If he’s in, I’m in.
Chris: You’re all so delusional.
Jenny: Maybe, but look at what we’ve managed to do with these hedge funds. If we keep driving up the price, maybe we’ll scare more of these guys into closing out their shorts, and then all of that bailout money becomes ours.
Chris: Wait. Your screen name is “StonkMom”?
Kevin Gill: Your son’s a huge Internet celebrity now. Millions of people, including StonkMom, thinks he’s some like, I don’t know, investment genius.
Elaine Gill: No, he is a genius.
Kevin Gill: No, he’s not.
Steve Gill: [to Keith] You’re up twenty-three million? And you’re not selling?
Elaine Gill: Jesus, Mary and Joseph.
Steve Gill: What the f*** is wrong with you? Do you even know how much twenty-three million dollars is? And you’re just going to let it ride? What’s the matter with you?
Elaine Gill: [to Keith] You post your balance sheet?
Kevin Gill: Yeah, the same idiot who left a fresh pair of Nikes out on the bleachers for just anyone to take.
Keith Gill: So you admit they were stolen.
Kevin Gill: I admit you’re a f***ing moron.
Keith Gill: At least I won the race.
Kevin Gill: What’s the point of winning the race if you let some dips**t steal the prize?
'The big firms have such a big advantage in terms of technology, and information, and just sheer wealth, there's no hope for the little guy anymore. Or there was no hope. Maybe now there is.' - Keith Gill (Dumb Money) Share on X
Elaine Gill: What if somebody tries to rob you, kidnap the baby?
Caroline Gill: No one’s going to kidnap the baby.
Kevin Gill: Nobody wants that baby, Mom.
Chris: [to Jenny] You’re worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in stock, and you’re amassing credit card debt. You really are out of your mind.
Marcos Garcia: Eight million people is real.
Marco’s Father: [in Spanish] H-O-D-L. Eight million don’t even know how to spell “hold”.
Marcos Garcia: It’s a joke.
Marco’s Mother: [in Spanish] A corny joke.
Man on TikTok: This is like little poor guys versus rich guys, and poor guys are winning right now.
Caroline Gill: What, are you going to lose your job?
Keith Gill: It’s fine. They gave me a choice.
Caroline Gill: Between what? Between your job and Roaring Kitty?
Keith Gill: Resign or I’m fired.
Elon Musk: Vlad the Stock Impaler.
Man on TikTok: They’re stealing from the poor and giving back to the rich! They’re robbing from the hood!
Keith Gill: Oh, sorry. This is like my house. You want my autograph?
Process Server: Yeah. You’ve been served.
Caroline Gill: The answer is not in your computer. There’s a dozen reporters on our lawn. You have to testify before Congress. The game has changed.
Keith Gill: I know. I hear you.
Caroline Gill: I don’t think you do.
Jenny: I had half a million in stocks last week, but Wall Street cheated. Surprise, surprise.
Kevin Gill: Come on, you’re the richest man in Brockton. You dress like an a**hole.
Keith Gill: I lost fifteen million yesterday, and another fifteen the day before that.
Kevin Gill: You’re still the richest man in Brockton like by far. Bro, you got rich dudes pi**ing in their pants right now. I mean, come on, man. How many people from Brockton High can say that?
Keith Gill: Whole f***ing world kept my ego in check.
Kevin Gill: What the f*** are you going to tell Congress, Keith? Huh?
Keith Gill: Beg them not to send me to prison?
Kevin Gill: M**herf***er, stop hiding. Seriously. Okay? Stop being all meek and s**t and running away.
Keith Gill: What, you want me to run through lightning with my d**k out?
Kevin Gill: Yeah. Please. Exactly that. Run through lightning with your d**k out. F*** it.
Keith Gill: [referring to Kevin] He told me to run naked.
Caroline Gill: You ran naked?
Keith Gill: No. It’s a metaphor. He’s saying I got to take this thing head-on.
Caroline Gill: Well, kind of like to see you run naked.
Gabe Plotkin: I’m here testifying today far removed from my background. I grew up in a middle class family in Portland, Maine. My dad was a grocery store executive.
Gabe’s Lawyer: Maybe leave that part out.
Gabe Plotkin: Part about my dad?
Gabe’s Lawyer: The executive part.
Gabe Plotkin: I went to a public high school. I studied hard and got into Northwestern.
Gabe’s PR Person: Just say, “A good college.”
Gabe Plotkin: I can’t say I went to Northwestern?
Gabe’s Lawyer: Too elite.
Gabe’s Lawyer: Gabe, where do you plan on doing your testimony?
Gabe Plotkin: Here.
Gabe’s Lawyer: In front of your wine collection?
Gabe Plotkin: I mean, this is… I don’t have that big of a wine collection, honestly.
Gabe’s Lawyer: Yeah, it’s huge.
Kevin Gill: [to Keith] You’re right. This is serious. You can go to jail forever.
Briggsy: A long time. Long, long time.
Caroline Gill: You’re going to be great.
Keith Gill: If it goes bad, it’s going to be real bad.
Caroline Gill: Well, don’t let it go bad.
Kevin Gill: [watching Ken’s testimony] Looks like a Disney Channel villain.
Kevin Gill: [watching Gabe’s testimony] You’re on mute, d**k.
Keith Gill: I am happy to discuss my purchase of GameStop shares and my discussions of their fair value on social media. But before I do that, a few things I am not. I am not a cat.
Elaine Gill: [as they’re watching his testimony] What did he say?
Kevin Gill: He just said “cat”, Ma. It’s like a Kitty thing.
Keith Gill: It’s alarming how little we all know about the inner workings of the market.
Keith Gill: A lot of people feel the system is broken. The whole idea of the stock market is to be like kind of a fair playing field, where if you’re smart, and maybe with a little luck, you can make your fortune. But if it ever was that, it’s certainly not anymore. The big firms have such a big advantage in terms of technology, and information, and just sheer wealth, there’s no hope for the little guy anymore. Or there was no hope. Maybe now there is. And as for me, I like the stock. And I don’t plan on selling anytime soon.
Caroline Gill: [to Keith] You’re a f***ing gangster.
Brad: You sold?
Marcos Garcia: Half. Right at the tippy-tippy top. And I’m holding the other half for the long haul.
Keith Gill: I can’t believe you’re my brother.
Kevin Gill: You look like a f***ing Ninja Turtle.
[we then see them having a footrace in the nude, then we are told Keith retired from public life and is worth $34 million]