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Waging a Living
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- Summary: This observational documentary chronicles the battle of four low-wage workers to lift their families out of poverty.
- Director: Edward Rosenstein
- Genre(s): Documentary
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100Should be required viewing for every concerned citizen.
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Neither hectoring nor sanctimonious, the film plays like an illustrated version of Barbara Ehrenreich's recent best-seller "Nickel and Dimed," and has an editing style that's brisk and unexploitative.
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Weisberg, whose stripped-down style seems refreshing amid the current spate of super-produced docs, gives you what you want, if what you want are dismally deferred American Dreams and harsh economic realities. And you should.
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40The lack of cohesion and conviction is disconcerting, and it allows the movie to veer dangerously close to exploitation. Its subjects -- and its viewers -- deserve more.
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Andrea10This film was a gut-renching slap of reailty.
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