Floored (film)
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Director James Allen Smith Genres Documentary, Indie film Language English | 6.8/10 Duration Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cast Jon Najarian Writer Andrew McAllister , James Allen Smith Release date September 1, 2009 Similar movies Inside Job , Hank: 5 Years from the Brink , The Ascent of Money , Capitalism: A Love Story , Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room , Heist: Who Stole the American Dream? Tagline For some people, risking everything is nothing. |
Floored the complete documentary film
Floored is a 2009 documentary film about the people and business of the Chicago trading floors. The film focuses specifically on several Chicago floor traders who have been impacted by the electronic trading revolution and whose jobs have been threatened by the use of computers in the trading world. Directed by James Allen Smith, the film runs for 77 minutes.

The film has become particularly relevant in light of the U.S. financial crisis of 2009; Greg Burns of the Chicago Tribune has said of the film's director, "By dealing with hard times in the workplace, Smith taps into a vein running through millions of lives in this brutal recession, as the nation’s unemployment rate soars toward 10 percent"

Critics have suggested a meta-fictional subtext to the documentary, linking the film's storyline about Chicago traders to the plight of independent filmmakers in a time of the declining influence of film festivals and the ubiquitousness of free internet content. Ironically, the documentary itself was widely available on video sharing sites before its official "web premiere" on September 6, 2013.
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