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Average Rating:7.3/10
Consensus: A potent and lithely constructed documentary about America's financial crisis, I.O.U.S.A grabs you with figures but holds you with irreverent wit.
Theatrical Release:Aug 22, 2008 Limited
Box Office: $634,829
Synopsis: Wake up, America! We’re on the brink of a financial meltdown. I.O.U.S.A. boldly examines the rapidly growing national debt and its consequences for the United States and its citizens. As the Baby... [More]
Starring: David Walker, William Bonner, Warren Buffett, Ron Paul
Director: Patrick Creadon
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Any documentary about the alarming level of our national debt faces a major hurdle -- making the dismal subject at least somewhat palatable. I.O.U.S.A. does about as good a job as any film could be expected to, thanks to the direction of Patrick Creadon.
Top CriticI.O.U.S.A. is a clear, cogent and compelling primer on contemporary American economics and the not-so-small matter of how we ended up at the edge of a precipice.
Top CriticChastening, compelling.
This documentary manages to do something damn near impossible: make the subject of the U.S. national debt understandable and, moreover, render it interesting and urgent.
The movie clearly wants to scare the crap out of viewers, and it actually achieves that goal better than most horror movies have lately.
This movie is a scary, exhilarating blast of atheist common sense.
I.O.U.S.A. manages to explain how and why the United States got into this kind of fiscal fiasco and make it entertaining -- no mean feat.
Future generations may regard I.O.U.S.A. as the most important film of 2008. Not the best. Not the most entertaining. Just the most important.
This solid doc reminds us how unsustainable the current American economy is.
A clear-headed and comprehensible picture of American fiscal policy, but one that's not in the least boring.
It's like Michael Moore decided to tackle the national debt, but finally kept himself and his personal agenda out of the way.
Yet another documentary that everyone should see but most will not.
Top CriticAn alternately amusing and alarming primer on America's off-the-charts fiscal irresponsibility.
Top CriticIt's possible that filmmaker Patrick Creadon's greatest accomplishment in his new film, I.O.U.S.A., is turning U.S. fiscal policy into a funny piece of entertainment.
Is to the country's troubled economy what An Inconvenient Truth was to global warming ... it's extremely effective at getting its message across.
Here's the bottom line, kids. The United States is probably going to go broke during your lifetimes.
Top Critic[T]his attempt to explain the nation’s fiscal crises in an entertaining and enlightening way ends up in the red.
In I.O.U.S.A. explains in clear and compelling terms fiscal problems that have been in motion for decades.
If you believe the terrifying documentary I.O.U.S.A., America is headed for a financial crisis of monumental proportions - and apparently, we are probably too late to keep it from happening.
A sharp, absorbing portrait of our national debt crisis.
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