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Movie Info

Swept up in a heady pre-Recession world of absentee parents, plentiful booze and casual sex, an aspiring photographer (Ben Rosenfield) escapes his middle-class life for the moneyed mansions of the young and beautiful elite.

Genre:

drama
Original Language:

English
Director:

Kevin Asch
Writer:

Antonio Macia
Release Date (Theaters):

Jul 11, 2014 limited
Release Date (Streaming):

Aug 10, 2016
Runtime:

1h 24m
Production Co:

Lookbook Films, M.E.G.A. Films

Cast & Crew

Ben Rosenfield
Fisher Miller

Gregg Sulkin
Dylan Carson

Nicola Peltz
Kate Miller

Grant Gustin
Todd Goodman

Steve Guttenberg
Philip Miller

Samantha Mathis
Bunny Miller

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News & Interviews for Affluenza

Critics Consensus: Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes is Certified Fresh

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Critic Reviews for Affluenza

All Critics (15) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (3) | Rotten (12)

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.

December 2, 2014 | Rating: C- | Full Review…

Stephan Lee
Entertainment Weekly
Kevin Asch's sophomore feature attempts to tackle weighty themes but ultimately feels as shallow as the lives of most of its principal characters.

July 22, 2014 | Full Review…

Frank Scheck
Hollywood Reporter
"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.

July 17, 2014 | Full Review…

Sheri Linden
Los Angeles Times
An empty recasting of 'The Great Gatsby' among Long Island rich kids circa 2008.

July 11, 2014 | Full Review…

Andrew Barker
Variety
"Affluenza" thinks it is deep when it is merely trite. It illuminates nothing.

July 11, 2014 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…

Sheila O'Malley
RogerEbert.com
Straining to find a correlation, even metaphorical, between teenage hedonism and economic collapse, "Affluenza" never coheres.

July 10, 2014 | Full Review…

Ben Kenigsberg
New York Times
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.

August 16, 2014 | Rating: 3.9/10 | Full Review…

Brent Simon
Paste Magazine
Wealthy young people party in overly ambitious drama.

July 18, 2014 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

S. Jhoanna Robledo
Common Sense Media
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.

July 11, 2014 | Rating: 6/10 | Full Review…

Isaac Feldberg
We Got This Covered
Handsome-looking but all-too-familiar drama about wealthy Long Island teens with too much money and time on their hands makes no inroads into the adolescent angst that afflicts the silver-spoon set.

July 10, 2014 | Full Review…

Doris Toumarkine
Film Journal International
Nothing is revealing or surprising in this horse-beating tale of spiritual poverty among the extremely wealthy.

July 8, 2014 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Chris Klimek
The Dissolve