Generation Wealth

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Generation Wealth

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2018,

1h 46m,

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Lauren Greenfield examines materialism, celebrity culture, and social status and reflects on the desire to be wealthy at any cost. This visual history of the growing obsession with wealth uses first-person interviews in Los Angeles, Moscow, Dubai, China and around the world to bear witness to the global boom-and-bust economy and document its complicated consequences.

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Critics Consensus

Generation Wealth has admirable aims, but never manages to focus long enough to put together the type of cogent argument made by director Lauren Greenfield's earlier works.

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Jessica Kiang

The Playlist

Oct 23, 2018

B

What we get is a film that is most fun when observing the cautionary lifestyles of the once-rich and adjacent-to-famous, but most insightful when it pulls outs of the fast lane and Greenfield's eye turns inward on her own life.

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Robert Daniels

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Aug 26, 2018

1.5/4

Greenfield's film is all over the place, and is more stream of consciousness than informative or even entertaining.

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Joseph Walsh

Time Out

Aug 22, 2018

4/5

Bleak and compelling viewing.

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Richard Crouse

Richard Crouse

Feb 28, 2021

3.5/5

Greenfield wants us to know that greed, despite what Gordon Gekko so famously said, is not good.

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Bianca Garner

In Their Own League

Feb 3, 2021

This documentary really puts things in perspective for you. Money doesn't equal happiness.

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David Bax

Battleship Pretension

Dec 8, 2020

Greenfield is aware of the irony. But she's also aware of the pain underneath that statement, encouraging us to lay down our smirks and quips and find it in ourselves to feel it too...

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George R

Apr 8, 2019

Interesting journey of money and other obsessions over 25 years...the outcomes are as expected of course...

Rey M

Mar 16, 2019

After viewing the trailer I was very interested in seeing this documentary. However, what could have been a sensational and thought provoking documentary ended up being a documentary about the photographer, with her showing us a look at her life with interviews with her parents and children and lots of back story on her. This was randomly mixed in with clips and interviews of others to thinly support the theme that our greed will lead to the downfall of our society. It is two documentaries mixed in together with neither one being well told. The interviews and footage showcasing the chase for greed could have been compelling with the support of a writer that could have streamlined the content into a narrative audiences could follow and enjoy.

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Harry R

Mar 14, 2019

I can't say that I wasn't expecting to see some pretty disgusting displays of greed and consumerism gone mad but I had hoped for a more skilful and insightful narrator than Lauren Greenfield who follows up on the subjects of some of her photojournalist works of the past. Did we get any new understanding? No, not at all. All we got is a parade of figures with whom I felt little or no empathy and less sympathy.

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George S

Mar 13, 2019

a unique look behind the scenes of life. Money is not everything. You find that out sooner or later.

Kylo P

Mar 11, 2019

The truth about the american way of life

Draco L

Mar 10, 2019

This movie was a bit graphic in blunt ways at times. Although, its extremely revealing character was symbolic in how it exposed the hidden lures of the American Dream. Greed, self-indulgence, & self-centeredness should never be put before Love. Love indeed reigns above all.

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Synopsis

Lauren Greenfield examines materialism, celebrity culture, and social status and reflects on the desire to be wealthy at any cost. This visual history of the growing obsession with wealth uses first-person interviews in Los Angeles, Moscow, Dubai, China and around the world to bear witness to the global boom-and-bust economy and document its complicated consequences.

Director: Lauren Greenfield
Producer: Wallis Annenberg, Frank Evers, Lauren Greenfield
Screenwriter: Lauren Greenfield
Distributor: Amazon Studios
Production Co: Evergreen Pictures
Rating: R (Nudity|Drug Material|Disturbing Images|Strong Sexual Content)
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jul 20, 2018, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 16, 2018
Box Office (Gross USA): $236.3K
Runtime: 1h 46m

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