Generation Wealth

2018, Documentary, 1h 46m

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Generation Wealth has admirable aims, but never manages to focus long enough to put together the type of cogent argument made by director Lauren Greenfield's earlier works. Read critic reviews

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Movie Info

Lauren Greenfield examines materialism, celebrity culture, and social status and reflects on the desire to be wealthy at any cost. This visual history of the growing obsession with wealth uses first-person interviews in Los Angeles, Moscow, Dubai, China and around the world to bear witness to the global boom-and-bust economy and document its complicated consequences.
  • Rating:
    R (Nudity|Drug Material|Disturbing Images|Strong Sexual Content)
  • Genre:
    Documentary
  • Original Language:
    English
  • Director:
    Lauren Greenfield
  • Producer:
    Frank Evers, Lauren Greenfield
  • Writer:
    Lauren Greenfield
  • Release Date (Theaters):
     limited
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  • Box Office (Gross USA):
    $236.3K
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  • Distributor:
    Amazon Studios

Cast & Crew

Lauren Greenfield
Bret Easton Ellis
Paris Cronin
Mijanou Bardot
Sheldon Greenfield
Patricia Greenfield
Lauren Greenfield
Director
Lauren Greenfield
Writer
Geralyn White Dreyfous
Executive Producer
Lilly Hartley
Executive Producer
Frank Evers
Producer
Lauren Greenfield
Producer
Shana Hagan
Cinematography
Victor Livingston
Film Editing
Dan Marks
Film Editing
Aaron Wickenden
Film Editing
Michelle M. Witten
Film Editing
Jeff Beal
Original Music
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