Cashing Out

Cashing Out

2024•40m•7.0/10

Documentary

Ratings

🎬TMDb

7.0/10(2)

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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Production

Nine Patch Pictures

Language

EN

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Sean O. Strub

Sean O. Strub

Self

Matt Nadel

Self

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