
Icahn: The Restless Billionaire
2022 · Movie · PG-13 · 102 min · ★ 7.0
This documentary looks at a famously polarizing billionaire financier, tracing his rise from modest beginnings to immense wealth while examining the tensions between his public criticism of corporate excess and the reality of extreme inequality. It explores how one person can be seen as both a reformer and a feared dealmaker.
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Details
- Years
- 2022
- Release date
- 2022-02-15
- Language
- English
- Rated
- PG-13
- Runtime
- 102 min
- TMDB rating
- 7.0/10 (5 votes)
About
If you enjoy character-driven documentaries about powerful public figures and big social questions, this may click, especially if you liked Manny; Not for you if you want light entertainment or a broad, multi-subject overview.
Pros: intriguing real-life contradictions; rags-to-riches arc; timely inequality themes | Cons: narrow focus on one figure; may feel repetitive; limited opposing viewpoints
Cast & crew
- CI
Carl Icahn
as Self

Bill Gates
as Self

Oliver Stone
as Self

Andrew Ross Sorkin
as Self
- CL
Cara Lombardo
as Self
- RF
Rana Foroohar
as Self
- SW
Scott Wapner
as Self
- BB
Bryan Burrough
as Self
- BI
Brett Icahn
as Self
Directed by Bruce David Klein