A Wharton School of Finance dropout and scabrous critic of the way we live now, self-taught filmmaker James Scurlock offers an eye-opening expose of how debt has become the American way of life — and death.
Scurlock tackles this huge subject in 87 short minutes, primarily through a series of journalistic, on-the-road-style interviews with a disparate group of people either consumed by debt, gambling with debt or making a killing on other people's debt. Likable Las Vegas real-estate agent Beth Naef sells properties in so-called "master-planned" communities like "Seven Hills," a theme neighborhood of overgrown McMansions named after "someplace in Italy." In su...
Released:
2007
Rated:
NR
Length:
86 mins