The heads of Wall Street's biggest investment banks were summoned to an evening meeting by the US Treasury Secretary, Hank Paulson, to discuss the plight of another - Lehman Brothers. After six months' turmoil in the world's financial markets, Lehman Brothers was on life support and the government was about to pull the plug. Lehman CEO, Dick Fuld, recently sidelined in a boardroom coup, spends the weekend desperately trying to resuscitate his beloved company through a merger with Bank of America or UK-based Barclays. But without the financial support of Paulson and Lehman's fiercest competitors, Fuld's empire - and with it, the stability of the world economy - teeters on the verge of extinction.
Too Big to Fail - Il crollo dei giganti (Too Big to Fail) è un film per la televisione del 2011 diretto da Curtis Hanson, basato sul best-seller Il crollo - Too Big to Fail di Andrew Ross Sorkin, giornalista ed economista del New York Times. Il film si focalizza sulla crisi economica del 2008, quando la crisi dei mutui della Lehman Brothers fece crollare Wall Street in un crac finanziario di vaste proporzioni, dando vita alla recessione globale.