September 1, 2009
Release Date

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Floored (2009)

Name: Floored
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2009-09-01

1h 17m

Running Time

September 1, 2009
Release Date

External Links & Social Media

Plot.

Enter a world where pandemonium reigns and reckless ambition rules: the trading floors in the financial canyons of downtown Chicago. Here, men use strange hand signals to buy and sell everything from pork belly to soybeans while wearing the weight of our complex economy on their shoulders - along with their neon jackets. It's a physical, bruising place, one where a slight gain creates heroes, rich beyond what their high school educations should ever afford. But the wrong move on the wrong day can ruin lives. At a time when millions have lost fortunes in the fickle stock market and fear abounds about the faltering financial system, FLOORED is a gripping, honest look behind the curtain of the trading floor that few have ever seen

Where to Watch.

Free

Currently Floored is available for streaming online, rent, buy or watch for free on: Kanopy

Streaming in:
🇺🇸 United States

Cast & Crew.

James Allen Smith

Director

Joseph Gibbons

Producer

James Allen Smith

Director

Andrew McAllister

Writer

Stefan Nelson

Composer

Chris Baron

Cinematographer

Media.

Details.

Release Date
September 1, 2009

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 17m

Genres
Documentary

Last updated: 2025-03-01

This Movie Is About.

capitalism

economics

stock market

Wiki.

Floored is a 2009 documentary film about floor traders of the Chicago futures exchange trading floors, which were becoming obsolete due to electronic trading. Directed by James Allen Smith, the film runs for 77 minutes.

The film was released in September 2009, as economies were recovering from the Great Recession and just before the 2010 flash crash. Ironically, the documentary was widely available on video sharing sites before its official "web premiere" on September 6, 2013.

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.