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Cashing Out

7.0(2)202440m1

At the height of the AIDS crisis, many gay men sold their life insurance policies to investors for quick cash. This documentary charts the rise and fall of the hundred-million-dollar “gay-death-profiteering” industry that grew out of their desperation, and spotlights one of its earliest investors: the filmmaker’s father.

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Released
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Language
English
  • investor
  • hiv/aids epidemic
  • documentary short
  • financial scam

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Director

Matt Nadel

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United States of America

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • Theatrical25 Aug 2024

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Cashing Out was released on 25 August 2024.

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    CinemaSerf

    1/19/2026

    7/10

    This is really quite a thought-provoking documentary that, though focussed on gay men who died of AIDS (or GRID) early on, could apply to anyone who has insurance policies that make them worth more dead than alive. From the perspective of an innovator in this financial sector, Scott Page, this explores just how poverty-stricken some of the initial sufferers of this disease were. Often alone, jobless and homeless with…

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