Heist: Who Stole The American Dream (2012)
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A new, groundbreaking feature documentary about the roots of the American economic crisis, and the continuing assault on working and middle class people in the United States. Heist boldly reveals the crumbling structure of the U.S. economy - the result of four decades of deregulation, massive job… More A new, groundbreaking feature documentary about the roots of the American economic crisis, and the continuing assault on working and middle class people in the United States. Heist boldly reveals the crumbling structure of the U.S. economy - the result of four decades of deregulation, massive job outsourcing, and tax policies favoring mega-corporations and wealthy elites. -- (C) Official Site
- Directed By
- Frances Causey, Donald Goldmacher
- Genres
- Documentary, Special Interest
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Mar 2, 2012 Limited
Critic Reviews
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Mindy Farabee, Los Angeles Times
Ultimately reframing the advancement of free market ideology of the last four decades as class warfare against the have-nots, the documentary manages to widen its scope without losing its narrative thread.
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Dennis Harvey, Variety
Though myriad aspects of its story have already been probed in greater depth elsewhere, Frances Causey and Donald Goldmacher's Heist is well timed as a one-stop summary of reasons for ordinary Americans to be furious at our financial systems.
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Stephen Holden, New York Times
[It] has the virtue of taking the long view of a crisis that recent films like "Inside Job" and "Too Big to Fail" have only sketchily explored. It makes a strong case that government regulation of business is essential for democracy to flourish.
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Nick Schager, Village Voice
Like its title, Heist: Who Stole the American Dream? purports to ask a question but is only interested in forwarding its predictable agitprop answer.
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Brent Simon, Shared Darkness
Heist is a cinematic gut punch, to be sure, but not one entirely devoid of hope.
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Cast
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Thom Hartmann
as Narrator
