Cashing Out
Overview
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.
- Production
- Nine Patch Pictures
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Cast
Crew
- Director
- Matt Nadel
- Producers
- Luke Hodges,Matt Nadel,Matt Bomer,Julie Cohen
- Cinematography
- Brennan Goldstein
- Composer
- Tom Foskett-Barnes
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CinemaSerf
January 19, 2026
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 their scant resources going to pay medical bills, someone hit on the idea of se…