• Generation Wealth (2018)

    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
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Release Date: July 20th, 2018

R |1 hr 46 min

Plot Summary

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

Genres: Documentary

Production Co: Evergreen Pictures

Keywords: Rise, Fall, 2010s, Engaging, Los Angeles, Quest

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Ratings & Reviews

  • 60
    Tricia OlszewskiTheWrap

    Generation Wealth is ultimately a string of subjects in search of a binder. And the director’s interests don’t count. show more

  • 60
    Dan FienbergThe Hollywood Reporter

    Easily the most ambitious film of the director's career, but also the most infuriating for all of the sociological and psychological points that it tries to make in ways that are too often unearned or poorly defended. show more

  • 80
    Screen International

    The result is both a compelling, damning cultural observation and testament to Greenfield’s own visual artistry. show more

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