Affluenza
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 25 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: March 22, 2011
- Originally Released: 2011
- Label: Bullfrog Films
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2/5 --
Nothing is revealing or surprising in this horse-beating tale of spiritual poverty among the extremely wealthy.
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The Dissolve
Rating: C- --
The generational conflict -- overly ambitious parents and their disaffected millennial children -- plays so on-the-nose it almost seems like satire, but it's really just bad writing.
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Entertainment Weekly
Rating: 3.9/10 --
A stilted, utterly phony drama of rich-kid angst that thinks it's saying something about the hidden perils of privilege but is actually just an exercise in wheel-spinning inanity.
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Paste Magazine
"The Great Gatsby" Lite screenplay by Antonio Macia hasn't the sharpness of satire or the momentousness of an American tragedy, veering instead toward middling melodrama.
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Los Angeles Times
Kevin Asch's sophomore feature attempts to tackle weighty themes but ultimately feels as shallow as the lives of most of its principal characters.
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Hollywood Reporter
An empty recasting of 'The Great Gatsby' among Long Island rich kids circa 2008.
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Variety
Rating: 6/10 --
Though it prefers F. Scott Fitzgerald's voice to any whisper of its own, Affluenza is well-acted and often cutting and canny in its condemnation of entitled, apathetic youth.
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We Got This Covered
Product Description:
Produced for PBS by the network's Seattle affiliate KCTS, the semi-satirical documentary AFFLUENZA dissects America's "rampant materialism" and "epidemic of overconsumption." After exploring the causes of affluenza, the film provides a diagnosis of the symptoms and suggests possible treatments -- or "escapes" -- for the afflicted viewer. National Public Radio personality Scott Simon serves as host, while guest stars include Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin, who suggest how to get off the "work and spend treadmill" by citing their best-selling book YOUR MONEY OR YOUR LIFE; Kalle Lasn, published of Adbuster magazine and creator of anti-manipulative "subvertisements"; Jennifer Gallus and Olivia Martin, teenaged authors of the award-winning play Barbie Get Real, which skewers the conspicuous-consumption cult of the Barbie Doll; and Gleen Stanton, social research analyst for public policy on behalf of James Dobson's Focus on the Family group, who discusses religious conservatism's response to materialism in everyday life. The 56-minute AFFLUENZA made its PBS debut on September 15, 1997, and was followed by 1998's ESCAPE FROM AFFLUENZA.
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- Sales Rank: 63,274
- UPC: 761326132027
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