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Generation Wealth

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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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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.

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Jessica Kiang The Playlist 10/23/2018
B
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. Go to Full Review
Robert Daniels 812filmreviews 08/26/2018
1.5/4
Greenfield's film is all over the place, and is more stream of consciousness than informative or even entertaining. Go to Full Review
Joseph Walsh Time Out 08/22/2018
4/5
Bleak and compelling viewing. Go to Full Review
Richard Crouse Richard Crouse 02/28/2021
3.5/5
Greenfield wants us to know that greed, despite what Gordon Gekko so famously said, is not good. Go to Full Review
Bianca Garner In Their Own League 02/03/2021
This documentary really puts things in perspective for you. Money doesn't equal happiness. Go to Full Review
David Bax Battleship Pretension 12/08/2020
Greenfield is aware of the irony. But she's also aware of the pain underneath that statement, encouraging us to lay down our smirks and quips and find it in ourselves to feel it too... Go to Full Review
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Geke g 07/30/2024 Im kinda confused some people have negative about this movie. Maybe this one is only for people who enjoyed only masterpieces See more Munkhchimeg T 07/30/2024 I bet you’re gonna think about this movie a lot after watched. Just watch 🍿 See more Julie R 07/03/2023 I was so surprised to see the bad reviews of this film! I do understand the criticism that Lauren spent too much time on her own family and herself, but I felt that it helped personalize her quest to understand what American values have become. She was looking inside her own life and loved ones to see what mattered to them, and how the constant greed around them effects their view of the world. I saw some people also took offense to her criticism of the "younger generation". Personally, I felt she was speaking out for them more than anything. She was showing the stress and depression so many young people deal with under the pressures of hyper capitalism. Overall, I thought this is a fascinating and important film. Also uplifting in it's own way, as you see many people sucked into a world of destructive greed pull themselves out and find a way back to themselves. I highly recommend this film to everyone, but especially to those feeling constantly weighed down by the ego and superficiality all around us. See more Remek K 04/09/2023 A series of unrelated vignettes intercut with the filmmaker's examination of her life and family, this disjointed documentary only partly delivers on its premise. Lauren Greenfield promises the viewer a cautionary tale about America's obsession with money and wealth, but what we get instead is an incoherent stew that seems to have been cooked up from scraps left over from previous projects. This is somewhat evidenced by several references to her chance encounters that birthed other projects. Ironically, Greenfield never fails to ostentatiously lord her entitled life of a Harvard legacy over the audience, with a less-than-subtle hint of her older son (crew, perfect ACT score as it is emphasized several times) being Harvard-bound as well. With the final scenes depicting a coffee table book of her photographs being printed and bound, one cannot escape the feeling of having been duped into watching a two-hour commercial. See more 08/06/2022 Fantastic documentary into the lives of rich, famous, and mostly, the money hungry! Great flick. See more cinephile f 08/02/2022 I think it was brilliant. I love how the director reflects back the excess of western culture to the viewer. I'm surprised the reviews are so low. I really learned a lot from it. See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis 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.
Director
Lauren Greenfield
Producer
Wallis Annenberg, Frank Evers, Lauren Greenfield
Screenwriter
Lauren Greenfield
Distributor
Amazon Studios
Production Co
Evergreen Pictures
Rating
R (Nudity|Drug Material|Disturbing Images|Strong Sexual Content)
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jul 20, 2018, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Oct 16, 2018
Box Office (Gross USA)
$236.3K
Runtime
1h 46m
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