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  • 2014
  • Not Rated
  • FilmBuff
  • 1 h 25 m
  • 2014
  • Not Rated
  • FilmBuff
  • 1 h 25 m

Summary Suburbia, 2008. Swept up in a heady pre-recession world of absentee parents, plentiful booze and casual sex, aspiring photographer Fisher Miller (Ben Rosenfield) escapes his middle-class life for the moneyed mansions of the young, beautiful elite. With a stash of high-quality weed and a vintage camera, he gains access to his gorgeous cou...

Directed By: Kevin Asch

Written By: Antonio Macia, Kevin Asch

  • 2014
  • Not Rated
  • FilmBuff
  • 1 h 25 m
  • 2014
  • Not Rated
  • FilmBuff
  • 1 h 25 m

Affluenza

Metascore Generally Unfavorable Based on 12 Critic Reviews
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Summary Suburbia, 2008. Swept up in a heady pre-recession world of absentee parents, plentiful booze and casual sex, aspiring photographer Fisher Miller (Ben Rosenfield) escapes his middle-class life for the moneyed mansions of the young, beautiful elite. With a stash of high-quality weed and a vintage camera, he gains access to his gorgeous cou...

Directed By: Kevin Asch

Written By: Antonio Macia, Kevin Asch

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Jul 9, 2014
“Gatsby” meets “Gossip Girl” in this outsider-among-the-wealthy story set, like Fitzgerald’s novel, on Long Island.
By Sara Stewart FULL REVIEW
40
Jul 10, 2014
The film is dragged down by its awkwardly paradoxical story, which tries too hard to care too little.
By Abby Garnett FULL REVIEW
40
Jul 10, 2014
Ultimately feels as shallow as the lives of most of its principal characters.
By Frank Scheck FULL REVIEW
38
Jul 11, 2014
Affluenza thinks it is deep when it is merely trite. It illuminates nothing.
By Sheila O'Malley FULL REVIEW
33
Jul 10, 2014
The film is an empty shell, reducing a complex lament to a shallow portrait of wealthy hedonists behaving badly.
By Mike D'Angelo FULL REVIEW
30
Jul 14, 2014
A splashy-looking yet depressingly empty exercise that is never more shallow than the times when it tries to go deep.
By Andrew Barker FULL REVIEW
20
Jul 10, 2014
The movie’s ennui feels like so much posing, and the Bret Easton Ellis-lite characters are monotone. It’s rich in effort, but it all comes to diminishing returns.
By Joe Neumaier FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Lookbook Films, M.E.G.A. Films
Release Date Jul 11, 2014
Duration 1 h 25 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website https://www.facebook.com/affluenza.film
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