Fail State

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Fail State

2018,

1h 34m,

Documentary

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82%

11 Reviews

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69%

Fewer than 50 Ratings

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11 Reviews

69%

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Fewer than 50 Ratings

An investigation into the dark side of higher education.

John Anderson

Wall Street Journal

Dec 17, 2018

Fail State is dense with information but incorporates just enough intimate, personal portraiture to make itself tragically human.

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John DeFore

The Hollywood Reporter

Nov 9, 2018

Shebanow doesn't beat the point into the ground, but he does observe that stock prices for exploitative for-profit schools surged as soon as America elected the figurehead of Trump University to the White House.

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G. Allen Johnson

San Francisco Chronicle

Nov 7, 2018

3/4

Shebanow does an excellent job of laying out the sordid history of the decline of American higher educational systems in "Fail State"...

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Phil Guie

Film-Forward.com

Mar 25, 2019

4/5

This is a serious and sober film, but what makes it engrossing are story lines that feel incredibly personal...

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Hunter Lanier

Film Threat

Nov 6, 2018

5/10

The ham-fisted approach undercuts the valuable information that makes up Fail State.

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Daphne Howland

L.A. Weekly

Oct 22, 2018

[A] well-paced, chock-full documentary...

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Kylo G

Dec 17, 2018

A very important and well-made film about a topic not discussed often enough-- the erosion of the once noble higher education system in the United States. The film spells out how private interests were able to corrupt it into a money making system that favors investors over students, defrauding entire generations in order to get them into massive debt. Our grandparents had no student debt hanging over their generation. This generation has 44 million people suffering under 1.4 trillion in student loan debt and it is going to become the next major financial crisis in our time. I hope that people see and share this film so that enough of us become savvy enough soon enough to make a difference.

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Alexander Shebanow

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Nicholas Adams

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Regina Sobel

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Adam Bolt

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Alan Oxman

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Synopsis

An investigation into the dark side of higher education.

Director: Alexander Shebanow
Producer: Adam Bolt, Alan Oxman, Alexander Shebanow, Tyler Comes, Terrence Crawford, Julia Glausi
Screenwriter: Nicholas Adams, Alexander Shebanow, Regina Sobel
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 2, 2018
Runtime: 1h 34m

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