FOLLOWING THE 2008 FINANCIAL CRISIS

Anthony “The Mooch” Scaramucci emerged as a high profile, yet polarizing, figure on Wall Street, an operator par excellence. While the rest of Wall Street laid low, the boisterous, self-appointed defender of the hedge fund "community" was a regular contributor on CNBC, hosted a lavish annual Las Vegas confab, and even had a cameo in Oliver Stone’s “Wall Street 2.” In 2014, filmmaker Andrew J. Muscato began filming Scaramucci as he prepared to open a Times Square steakhouse and produce his own weekly financial news program - all while running a multi-billion dollar financial enterprise. But what began as an effort to introduce Americans to a quintessential -- and captivating -- embodiment of Wall Street morphed into a story about a new kind of Beltway creature. In 2016, The Mooch’s journey for celebrity intersected with another outspoken New Yorker’s quest for the White House: Donald Trump. As their paths converged, the Mooch introduced himself to Americans in bombastic fashion, then self-destructed ten days later. Compiled over a four-year period and utilizing interviews, archival footage and fly-on-the-wall verité footage, MOOCH tells the story of the new American Dream embodied by the Mooch -- and how he flew too close to the sun chasing it. MOOCH exposes the new American political landscape, where politics and reality television are inexplicably - and inextricably - intertwined, taking viewers inside the sideshow of contemporary American politics.

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