Imagine one of the most tense movies you’ve ever seen based on the contents of a spreadsheet. That’s what makes this particular movie so unnerving, because nobody is running through the streets with guns and threats, but the fate of thousands, if not millions of people is at stake. Money is vanishing, careers are collapsing, and our heroes need to decide how much of their soul they want to sell.

Margin Call is streaming for free this month on Fawesome. Written and directed by J.C. Chandor, the film takes place over 24 hours at a fictional Wall Street investment bank during the early stages of the 2008 financial crisis. When a junior analyst discovers that the firm’s risk exposure could destroy the company, the discovery triggers a long night of panic and the desperate realization that they need to do absolutely anything to survive it.

The cast includes Zachary Quinto (Star Trek, American Horror Story) as Peter Sullivan, Kevin Spacey (American Beauty, House of Cards) as Sam Rogers, Paul Bettany (WandaVision, A Beautiful Mind) as Will Emerson, Jeremy Irons (Dead Ringers, The Lion King) as John Tuld, Stanley Tucci (The Devil Wears Prada, Spotlight) as Eric Dale, Demi Moore (Ghost, The Substance) as Sarah Robertson, Simon Baker (The Mentalist, The Devil Wears Prada) as Jared Cohen, Penn Badgley (You, Gossip Girl) as Seth Bregman, and Aasif Mandvi (The Brink, Evil) as Ramesh Shah.

Was ‘Margin Call’ a Success?

Critically, the movie was very well received, and it currently holds an 87% critics’ score on Rotten Tomatoes, with the consensus praising it as “smart, tightly wound, and solidly acted.” Also, it managed to nab itself an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay, which is a pretty big deal for a movie about rich people losing everything — unless you’re The Wolf of Wall Street or The Big Short . Financially, it punched well above its weight. According to reports, the film cost around $3.5 million to make and grossed about$19.5 million worldwide, meaning it made more thanfive times its production budget.