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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.
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    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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    Evergreen Pictures

Cast & Crew

Lauren Greenfield
Bret Easton Ellis
Paris Cronin
Mijanou
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
Cinematographer
Victor Livingston
Film Editor
Dan Marks
Film Editor
Aaron Wickenden
Film Editor
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  • What we get is a film that is most fun when observing the cautionary lifestyles of the once-rich and adjacent-to-famous, but most insightful when it pulls outs of the fast lane and Greenfield's eye turns inward on her own life.

    October 23, 2018 | Rating: B | Full Review…

    Jessica Kiang

    The Playlist

  • Greenfield's film is all over the place, and is more stream of consciousness than informative or even entertaining.

    August 26, 2018 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…

    Robert Daniels

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  • Bleak and compelling viewing.

    August 22, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

    Joseph Walsh

    Time Out

  • Scattered and self-indulgent, a career retrospective in search of a coherent theme.

    August 3, 2018 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…

    Matthew Lickona

    San Diego Reader

  • The moral lesson of "spend more time with loved ones" is pretty weak sauce if I'm being honest: It's nothing more than an unheeded warning sign on the edge of the diamond-encrusted road straight to ruin.

    August 2, 2018 | Rating: 1.5/5 | Full Review…

    Danielle White

    Austin Chronicle

  • Greenfield's titillating survey of America's grossest obsessions, from plastic surgery to porn, only flirts with economic and social context, mainly limiting itself to observation and personalization.

    July 27, 2018 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…

    Kate Taylor

    Globe and Mail
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