Generation Wealth

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Generation Wealth

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2018

1h 46m

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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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Critics Consensus

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

Oct 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.

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Robert Daniels

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Aug 26, 2018

1.5/4

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

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Joseph Walsh

Time Out

Aug 22, 2018

4/5

Bleak and compelling viewing.

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Richard Crouse

Richard Crouse

Feb 28, 2021

3.5/5

Greenfield wants us to know that greed, despite what Gordon Gekko so famously said, is not good.

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Bianca Garner

In Their Own League

Feb 3, 2021

This documentary really puts things in perspective for you. Money doesn't equal happiness.

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David Bax

Battleship Pretension

Dec 8, 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...

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Vincent B

@RT96763077 Jul 9, 2026

Amazing film! I am sure that those who gave one star review hate mirrors. And judging from how many gave low reviews make sense, people dont want to be told that their is more to life then their shallow materialistic values. Hate me or love me, but dont fear the miroir

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Geke g

@RT40239519 Jul 30, 2024

Im kinda confused some people have negative about this movie. Maybe this one is only for people who enjoyed only masterpieces

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Munkhchimeg T

@RT64187897 Jul 30, 2024

I bet you’re gonna think about this movie a lot after watched. Just watch 🍿

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Julie R

@JulieDR Jul 3, 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.

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Aug 6, 2022

Fantastic documentary into the lives of rich, famous, and mostly, the money hungry! Great flick.

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cinephile f

@RT52030170 Aug 2, 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.

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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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