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At the start of “Margin Call,” the sprawling city of New York is on panoramic display, its sparkling financial district emblematic of a world where dreams are made.

But this inspiring image is immediately undercut within the fast-paced trading room of an unnamed investment firm. As it turns out, New York is instead the place where dreams are crushed, for the cutthroat corporations of Wall Street show no mercy.

An icy and tense atmosphere pervades the floor of the firm, where something is awry.

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Eric Dale (Stanley Tucci), a risk analyst and career employee, is called into a side room. He is politely told that his cellular phone service will be cut the moment he steps outside the building and that he will be given until 4:47pm tomorrow to take the company’s offer of severance.

As it turns out, most of Dale’s floor is being fired that day, as the firm cleans house in a ruthless bid for greater efficiency; it is, as Will Emerson (Paul Bettany), a