Brother, Can You Spare a Dollar?

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Brother, Can You Spare a Dollar?

2012

1h 9m

Documentary

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Using street interviews and stock footage, filmmaker Thom Hoffman compares the current state of the U.S. economy with the Great Depression.

Kyle Smith

New York Post

08/17/2012

0/4

A shoddy, slapdash look at issues raised by the Great Depression that neither gives an adequate overview nor manages to argue a coherent thesis.

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Neil Genzlinger

New York Times

08/16/2012

1.5/5

The whole enterprise has a get-off-my-lawn feel; it tries to pass off whining and a rose-colored-glasses view of the past as insight.

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Michael Atkinson

Village Voice

08/14/2012

A vague Occupy-ish indictment of the 1 percent and the collapse of community as a cultural foundation.

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Kam Williams

myfilmblog

08/21/2012

1/4

Brother, can you spare me the aggravating agit-propaganda?

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Louis Proyect

rec.arts.movies.reviews

08/20/2012

A film in the spirit of Michael Moore's "Capitalism, a Love Story" but more attractive through its nod to the Occupy Movement rather than re-electing Obama, today's Herbert Hoover.

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Synopsis

Using street interviews and stock footage, filmmaker Thom Hoffman compares the current state of the U.S. economy with the Great Depression.

Director: Thom Hoffman
Producer: Thom Hoffman
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Runtime: 1h 9m