Watch: 37-Minute 'The Big Short' Talk With Adam McKay, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, And Christian Bale

A movie about the collapse of the big banks sounds like recipe for a sleeping aid, but get Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Christian Bale, and Brad Pitt to star, and suddenly you have our complete attention. While the latter actor didn't join director Adam McKay and the rest of the cast for a lengthy roundtable talk with THR, it's nonetheless an entertaining chat about "The Big Short."

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The first question you might be wondering is why the movie is relevant years after the banks nearly took the country over the financial edge? As McKay points out, an election is coming up, and one issue the candidates aren't talking about is hot to fix the broken system. "I hope that people hook with these characters. Then maybe a few conversations start," he said. "There have been several presidential debates where they don't even talk about bank reform, which is...