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What is the plot of the movie "Dumb Money"? ›

Everyday people flip the script on Wall Street and get rich by turning GameStop into one of the world's hottest companies. In the middle of everything is Keith Gill, a regular guy who starts it all by sinking his life savings into the stock. When his social media posts start blowing up, so does his life and the lives of everyone following him. As a stock tip becomes a movement, everyone gets wealthy -- until the billionaires fight back and both sides find their worlds turned upside down.

Dumb Money / Film synopsis

After being filmed in New Jersey from October to November 2022, Dumb Money premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 8, 2023. It was released in the United States by Sony Pictures Releasing in select theaters on September 15, 2023, and wide release on September 29, 2023.

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For a quick overview, "Dumb Money" is about the GameStop short squeeze, which was when a lot of big hedge funds shorted the GameStop stock, meaning they were betting that GameStop was going to go down and eventually go out of business, so they would make money off of its downfall by predicting it before it happens.

Dumb Money does not entirely shy away from showing those losses; along with Gill, the film follows a handful of fictionalized GameStop investors, including Jennifer, a nurse played by America Ferrara, who becomes obsessed with Gill and GameStop stock, buys in big, and ends up losing money after failing to sell at the ...

America Ferrera plays Jenny Campbell, a nurse who appears to be a fictionalized version of Kim Campbell. Campbell shares a lot in common with Kim Campbell, a nurse at the Davis Center of Psychiatric Medicine, who's depicted in the book, "The Antisocial Network," upon which the film is based.

The irreverent finance comedy follows Keith Gill (Paul Dano), a real-life Reddit user who helped lead a surge in GameStop stock in early 2021.

Keith Gill learned about investing and became convinced that GameStop stock was undervalued, sharing this belief with others on Twitter (now X) with the handle RoaringKitty. He initially purchased $53,000 worth of GameStop stock in 2019. At the height of the GameStop surge, Gill's stock was valued at $48 million.

Between 2021–2024, Gill kept a low profile but continued to increase his GameStop ownership. As of June 2024, Gill owns 9 million shares of GameStop valued at approximately $250 million, making him one of the company's top five largest shareholders.

Dumb Money is a story about a trading strategy called short selling, and in particular, the risks that short selling entails. Essentially, a short seller speculates that the price of a particular asset, usually a stock, will decline in the future.

How much money did the guy from Dumb Money make? ›

While the exact details of Gill's net worth are uncertain, he confirmed that his all-time high value in GameStop was nearly $48 million, and his current net worth, as depicted in the movie Dumb Money, is $34 million.

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The film ends with Gill's followers being able to make life choices that allow them to catch a financial breath. Plus, Keith gifts his brother Kevin (Pete Davidson) a car, so he can continue his gigs as an essential worker.

They end up in a scuffle, and in the process discover that the briefcase is filled with a large sum of cash, as ransom money she had left at the airport terminal in exchange for her kidnapped husband, unbeknownst to Lloyd.