The read
It runs a compact 1h 10m.
Synopsis
Terry Jones presents Boom Bust Boom. The result of a meeting between writer, director, historian and Python Terry Jones and economics professor and entrepreneur Theo Kocken. Co-written by Jones and Kocken and featuring John Cusack, Nobel Prize winners Daniel Kahneman, Robert J Shiller and Paul Krugman, the film is part of a global movement to change the economic system through education to protect the world from boom and bust. A unique look at why economic crashes happen, Boom Bust Boom is a multimedia documentary combining live action with animation and puppetry to explain economics to everyone.
Ratings
IMDb7.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes85%
Metacritic68/100
15 audience votes
Key crew
- Ben TimlettDirector
- Terry JonesDirector
- Bill JonesDirector
Cast
- Terry JonesSelf
- Dirk BezemerSelf
- John CusackSelf
- George W. BushSelf (archive footage)
- Zvi BodieSelf
- Paul MasonSelf
- James GalbraithSelf
- Laurie SantosSelf - Associate Professor of Psychology & Cognitive Science