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  • 2014
  • Not Rated
  • Bloomberg Business Week
  • 1 h 25 m
  • 2014
  • Not Rated
  • Bloomberg Business Week
  • 1 h 25 m

Summary For three weeks in September 2008, one person was charged with preventing the collapse of the global economy. No one understood the financial markets better than Hank Paulson, the former CEO of Goldman Sachs. In Hank: Five Years from the Brink, Paulson tells the complete story of how he persuaded banks, congress and presidential candidat...

Directed By: Joe Berlinger

Written By: Joe Berlinger

  • 2014
  • Not Rated
  • Bloomberg Business Week
  • 1 h 25 m
  • 2014
  • Not Rated
  • Bloomberg Business Week
  • 1 h 25 m
Hank: 5 Years from the Brink
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Summary For three weeks in September 2008, one person was charged with preventing the collapse of the global economy. No one understood the financial markets better than Hank Paulson, the former CEO of Goldman Sachs. In Hank: Five Years from the Brink, Paulson tells the complete story of how he persuaded banks, congress and presidential candidat...

Directed By: Joe Berlinger

Written By: Joe Berlinger

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Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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33% Positive
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Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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63
Feb 6, 2014
The documentary’s greatest strength is its ability to humanize Paulson.
By Stephanie Merry FULL REVIEW
63
Jan 30, 2014
This is a useful primer on what went wrong — and right — in 2008.
By Kyle Smith FULL REVIEW
60
Feb 13, 2014
For all of the substantive issues underpinning the documentary, it still feels a slight film for Berlinger, and very unlike the documentary veteran's best work, found in his dogged following of the West Memphis Three case.
By Betsy Sharkey FULL REVIEW
60
Jan 30, 2014
None of the other economic gurus of the era is interviewed, so the film comes across as a 90-minute monologue, which is intriguing to a point but also wearying.
By Stephen Farber FULL REVIEW
60
Jan 28, 2014
Joe Berlinger's Hank: 5 Years From the Brink is more workaday and less transfixing than projects of his like "Brother's Keeper" or "Paradise Lost."
By Daphne Howland FULL REVIEW
50
Jan 30, 2014
It’s informative but not enlightening, and Mr. Berlinger packs in chattering news clips and a score that’s audible under the interview.
By Nicolas Rapold FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Bloomberg Business Week, RadicalMedia
Release Date Jan 31, 2014
Duration 1 h 25 m
Rating Not Rated
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• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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