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List Price: $26.98 Our Price: $19.99 You Save: $6.99 Features • Closed-captioned • Color • Dolby • DVD-Video • Subtitled • Widescreen • NTSC In Theaters : 2005 DVD Release : 05 June, 2007 |
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Maxed Out description In Maxed Out, author/director James D. Scurlock (Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit and the Era of Predatory Lenders) takes on America's debt crisis. Consequently, he touches on related issues like race, corporate malfeasance, and political subterfuge. Scurlock’s multi-media approach incorporates statistics, news excerpts, and interviews, but it's rarely dull (comedy bits from Louis CK and tunes from Queen and Coldplay don't hurt). Speakers include economic professors, debt collectors, pawn brokers, investigative reporters, beleaguered consumers, and even Robin Leach (Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous). Instead of New York and Los Angeles, he concentrates on mid-size cities, like Minneapolis, Oklahoma City, and Seattle. Plenty of small towns also come into play. Though he never presses the point himself, Scurlock allows his subjects to note the similarities between the credit industry and the drug trade (others use such incendiary terms as "rape"). One thing he neglects to mention, however, is pride. If house payments are ruining your life, selling that property may be the only solution. In most cases, however, it's hard not to feel for those individuals who didn't know what they were getting into before they signed their lives away. For some viewers, this will be a dispiriting documentary--three subjects recount the suicides of relatives who found their debt too much to bear--but in explaining exactly how lenders and creditors make money, Maxed Out can help others to avoid some of their most egregious practices. In other words, debt may be a downer, but knowledge is power. --Kathleen C. Fennessy |
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| Whether you already know all about it, this documentary is a must-watch for everyone, especially for high schoolers and those attending colleges and universities. This film should make you nervous about how you spend money and how you use credit.
The interviews are beneficial and brutally honest as well. These people are telling you what banks, lending companies, credit cards and whatnots are doing to you. If you aren't scared by what these people say, then maybe you shouldn't bother with credit. America is seriously in debt, with the average family being $9,000 in the hole. Director James Scurlock balances views from the richest to the poorest. Heck, he even included President Bush on the topic of bankruptcy. Just be prepared to be blown away. It's documentaries like Scurlock's I appreciate because I'm informed and made aware of my spending and credit habits. |
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