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Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit and the Era of Predatory Lenders (2007)
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Reviews Counted:48
Fresh:42
Rotten:6
Average Rating:7/10
Consensus: Maxed Out's presentation of startling facts and candid interviews put a human face on the issue of debt and financial insecurity.
Theatrical Release:Mar 9, 2007 Limited
Synopsis: Author and filmmaker James D. Scurlock takes on the powerful financial industry in an insightful and infuriating documentary about credit card debt in America. As he crisscrosses the United States,... [More]
Director: James D. Scurlock
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Reviews for Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit and the Era of...
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 4/5 |
Uma análise detalhada e preocupante sobre a política empregada pelas operadoras de cartões de crédito no intuito de manterem os clientes numa situação de endividamento constante - ou melh... pior: crescente.
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This muckraking documentary on America's personal-debt crisis lays bare the predatory practices of credit card companies and the Bush administration's cozy relationship with the financial services industry. Full Review |
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3.5/5 |
When it comes to credit, it pays to be informed. Full Review |
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Click to read the article Full Review |
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4/6 |
Do not see this film if you worry about money. Full Review |
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 2.5/4 |
Maxed Out focuses on how much we're in hock without ever really wondering why we need to buy. Full Review |
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3/5 |
This scattershot exposé of usurious banking practices examines why the most vulnerable segment of society is victimized by the lending industry and finds a simple answer: It’s obscenely profitable.
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8/10 |
One of the most effective of the many recent agitprop documentaries. Full Review |
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3/5 |
The propagandistic Maxed Out is ultimately undermined by the fact that, as vile as many of its corporate interviewees seem, its everyman subjects are often just as culpable in creating and perpetuating the whole mess. Full Review |
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3.5/5 |
shines a light on one of the most pervasive (and potentially disastrous) problems affecting our society today Full Review |
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[A] dispiriting expose of predatory lending scams that mislead even smart, educated people and a credit-card industry that is designed... to work against the ordinary consumer... Full Review |
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3/5 |
It's a slapdash affair... yet still winds up with a raw, gritty power. Full Review |
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3/4 |
Maxed Out exposes the credit card sham for what it is, and fingers the hustlers who perpetuate it. Full Review |
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B- |
...the film will make you think twice about spending money you don't have. Full Review |
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3/4 |
To maximize your return on this useful report, sit through the end credits where Spurlock deposits some of his best material. Full Review |
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Maxed Out doesn’t really offer solutions, probably because there are none. But it does a great job of showing how the rich get richer and the poor foot the bill, plus interest. Full Review |
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4/4 |
A much-needed wake-up call to face the fact that state-sanctioned usury and exorbitant late fees are destroying the prospects of working class citizens of ever achieving anything approaching the American Dream. Full Review |
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3/4 |
As a film, Maxed Out occasionally loses its way with glib choices (get ready to get tired of the song Money) and odd diversions (a segment with a Realtor begins the movie with a whimper, not a bang). But as a cry of outrage, it's spot-on. Full Review |
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3/4 |
If your outrage glands need a workout, be sure to see Maxed Out, a muckraking, emotionally powerful, wickedly entertaining documentary on the dreary-sounding topic of consumer debt. Full Review |
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B |
Maxed Out, while occasionally muddled in its financial details, presents a more-accurate-than-not vision of a nation that is starting to look like a candidate for rehab, on both an individual and a national level, for its addiction to debt. Full Review |
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