Here's how the cast of 'Dumb Money' compares to the real-life people they're portraying

• "Dumb Money," director Craig Gillespie's take on the GameStop stock frenzy, is now in theaters.

• Based on "The Antisocial Network," the movie follows January 2021's unprecedented GameStop stock surge amid a short squeeze by day traders.

• Here's how Paul Dano, Seth Rogen, and more resemble the real-life characters they portray.

Paul Dano plays Keith Gill a former Mass Mutual financial analyst who invested his life savings of $53,000 in GameStop stock when he thought it was undervalued.

The Brockton, Massachusetts native spent his own time posting to YouTube under the username Roaring Kitty and on Reddit's WallStreetsBets subreddit channel discussing his stock strategies.

His videos and commentary on his particular interest in the GameStop stock inspired others, including many followers of WallStreetsBets, to invest in the stock, causing the price to rise exponentially in a short amount of time.

In January 2021, GameStop shares surged more than 1,700%. At its highest, GameStop stock reached $483 per share. As a result, hedge funds lost over $5 billion.

The following month, Gill testified to Congress he "did not solicit anyone to buy or sell the stock" during a virtual hearing about his role in what happened with GameStop's stock.

Gill no longer works for Mass Mutual, resigning in January 2021, and has retreated from public life.

Though the movie's ending insinuates he sold some stock, buying his brother a new car, there's no proof Gill cashed in on millions of stock. Reuters reported his GameStop stocks were once valued at $48 million.

An unrecognizable Vincent D'Onofrio plays Steve Cohen, founder of the hedge fund Point72, who is one of two people to provide emergency funds to Plotkin's company.

In fall 2020, Cohen became the owner of the New York Mets, acquiring the team for $2.4 billion.

A few months later, Point72 reportedly added $750 million in cash to help stabilize Melvin Capital amid the GameStop stock surge. After providing aid, Cohen began receiving personal threats toward his family from those who were concerned about how this may affect the baseball team.

Cohen's company reportedly saw losses of nearly 15% during the GameStop stock surge in late January 2021.

In 2022, Bloomberg News reported Point72 would start to pull out and redeem the $750 million it invested in Melvin Capital over time.

As of January 2023, Cohen is reportedly worth about $13 billion.

Nick Offerman plays Ken Griffin, CEO and founder of hedge fund Citadel, who also bails out Melvin Capital.

The Chicago-based hedge fund invested $2 billion in Melvin Capital in early 2021 to help bail the company out.

In 2022, the company pulled back most of its investment.

According to digital publication Puck, Griffin is not happy with his portrayal in the film, claiming it "crosses the line into the knowingly false and defamatory portrayal of Ken and Citadel Securities" in a letter addressed to a Sony Pictures' lawyer.

The richest person in Florida, and one of the wealthiest in the world, Forbes reported Griffin's estimated net worth as of 2023 is $32.7 billion.

Sebastian Stan portrays Vlad Tenev, the cofounder of the stock-trading app Robinhood, which many people used to buy GameStop stock.

The company came under scrutiny when Robinhood temporarily suspended the buying of any more GameStop, AMC, and 11 other stocks on January 28, 2021.

At the time, Tenev told CNBC the decision was to "protect the firm and protect our customers."

The company's relationship with Citadel Securities, a market maker also owned by Ken Griffin, came into question with a lawsuit accusing the two of colluding in Robinhood's decision to halt January trading.

Robinhood makes money by a controversial, but legal, payment for order flow where they sell customers' buy-and-sell orders to market makers, including Citadel Securities, to handle the stock order.

In the fourth quarter of 2020, Robinhood received more than $221 million from PFOF.

The suit was thrown out. Robinhood was valued at $32 billion when it went public in July 2021.

"Dumb Money" claims Tenev is no longer a billionaire. Forbes dropped him from its billionaire list in 2022.

Rushi Kota plays the other Robinhood app cofounder, Baiju Bhatt.

The ending also claims Bhatt is no longer a billionaire. He also disappeared from Forbes' billionaire list in 2022.

America Ferrera plays Jenny Campbell, a nurse who appears to be a fictionalized version of Kim Campbell.

Campbell shares a lot in common with Kim Campbell, a nurse at the Davis Center of Psychiatric Medicine, who's depicted in the book, "The Antisocial Network," upon which the film is based.

In both the book and film, Campbell's a single mom heavily in debt who follows Keith Gill's postings before subsequently investing in GameStop with dreams of paying for her son's braces.

In the book, Kim Campbell initially buys 100 shares at around $16 per stock and recounts her account rising from $5,000 to $50,000 before the stock price began to freefall.

Jenny Campbell sees her fortune grow to as much as $500,000 before she starts losing money. Both versions of Campbell have a tough time bringing themselves to sell the stock, resulting in losses which they think about on plane rides.

The movie says Jenny's still -$13,284 in debt.

Kim's story ends more vaguely saying she wasn't sure if she'd sell, hold, or buy more stock.

Shailene Woodley plays Keith Gill's wife, Caroline.

Together they have a daughter. There's one photo of Caroline that can be found online.

Pete Davidson plays Keith's brother, Kevin Gill.

Kevin is portrayed as a DoorDash delivery driver who lives with their parents.

The ending shows the Gill brothers running on a track. In college, the two were track stars, once appearing in Sports Illustrated.

Anthony Ramos plays a Gamestop employee, Marcus, who isn't necessarily based on anyone.

He's a GameStop employee who starts investing in the stock and who leaves his job once he makes some money.

Myha'la Herrold and Talia Ryder play college students Riri and Harmony who are based on a few different women.

In "Dumb Money," the pair invest in GameStop stock to pay off college debt. Harmony and Riri aren't based on any real individual people, according to the film's production notes.

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