AMERICAN CASINO
Opening October 30 for a limited one-week run!

When you are in Wall Street's casino, you play by their rules.

Official Selection, 2009 Tribeca Film Festival

Official Selection, IDFA

Filmed over twelve months in 2008, this documentary takes you inside a game that our grandchildren never wanted to play. The film explains how and why over $12 trillion vanished into the American Casino. For chips, the casino used real people, who were sold on the American Dream as a safe investment. Too late, they discovered the truth. Cruelly, African-Americans and other minorities were the prime targets for the subprime loans that powered the casino. As the global financial system crumbles and outraged but impotent lawmakers fume at Wall Street titans, the casino's endgame emerges: Riverside, California, a foreclosure wasteland given over to colonies of rats and methamphetamine labs, where disease-bearing mosquitoes breed in their millions on the stagnant swimming pools of yesterday's dreams. Starring inside players from the heart of Wall Street, three unforgettable homeowners from the heart of Baltimore battling foreclosure, and the man who has made $500 million out of the crisis.

DIR/SCR/PROD Leslie Cockburn; SCR/PROD Andrew Cockburn. US, 2009, color, 89 min. NOT RATED

October 30, 7:10 show - SOLD OUT

Features panel discussion with special guests:
Filmmakers Leslie and Andrew Cockburn, along with UMD law professor Michael Greenberger and Mark Pittman of Bloomberg News, who both appear in the film.

Just announced:
October 30, 9:30 show features an introduction and Q&A with filmmakers Leslie and Andrew Cockburn!

No passes accepted.