2012
Not Rated
First Run Features
1 h 21 m

2012
Not Rated
First Run Features
1 h 21 m

Summary Wind power… It’s green... It’s good... It reduces our dependency on foreign oil. But does it? Or, is it merely a highly profitable financial scam for the many wind energy developers looking to erect industrial wind turbines in a town near you? Laura Israel’s documentary, Windfall, looks at both sides of wind energy development when the r...

Directed By: Laura Israel

2012
Not Rated
First Run Features
1 h 21 m

2012
Not Rated
First Run Features
1 h 21 m

Windfall

Name: Windfall
Genre: Documentary, Drama
Released: 2012-02-03
Duration: 1 min 21 s
Rating: 65
Cast: Scott Alexander, Frank Bachler, Ron Bailey, Sue Bailey, John Barrasso

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews

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Directed By: Laura Israel

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Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews

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The New York Times

Feb 6, 2012

Urgent, informative and artfully assembled documentary.

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Salon

Feb 6, 2012

It's a tantalizing case study that suggests ordinary people still have the power to steer a course between faceless bureaucracies and greedy capitalists, but only just - and only if they can find a way to overcome their differences and work together.

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Chicago Sun-Times

Feb 6, 2012

Windfall left me disheartened. I thought wind energy was something I could believe in.

By Roger Ebert FULL REVIEW

Slant Magazine

Feb 6, 2012

Whatever the legitimate arguments Windfall makes against the industry it targets, Meredith's feuding becomes just as inaccessible as the windmills that incite it.

By Joseph Jon Lanthier FULL REVIEW

The A.V. Club

Feb 6, 2012

Windfall is undeniably persuasive - and is likely advocating on the right side of the wind-farm issue - but the movie's case relies more on emotional appeals and frightening images of giant machines than on real, objective number-crunching.

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Chicago Reader

Feb 6, 2012

The argument is so tilted against windmills (sorry) that this comes perilously close to an advocacy video. But Israel deserves credit for delivering the bad news that wind power, like natural gas and nuclear, comes with its own array of social and environmental headaches.

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Time Out

Feb 6, 2012

Given the film's inability to posit any significant objections - or, for that matter, alternatives - to the turbines, it all feels like so much petty sniping against progress.

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Production Company Cat Hollow Films, Double Wide Media

Release Date Feb 3, 2012

Duration 1 h 21 m

Rating Not Rated

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Website http://windfallthemovie.com/

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Scott Alexander

Self - Operations Manager

Frank Bachler

Self - Town Supervisor

Ron Bailey

Self - Meredith Resident

Sue Bailey

Self - Meredith Resident

John Barrasso

Self - Senator, Wyoming

Rick Beyer

Self - Tug Hill Resident

Dan Birnbaum

Self - Meredith Resident

Keitha Capouya

Self - Head of Planning Board

Chuck Coggins

Self

Tara Collins

Self - Meredith Resident

John Hamilton

Self - Meredith Resident

Roger Hamilton

Self - Town Board

Tom Hewson

Self - Energy Ventures Analysis

Ken Jaffe

Self - Meredith Resident

Andy Karsner

Self - Department of Energy

Eve Kelley

Self - Tug Hill Resident

Steve McCarthy

Self - Meredith Resident

Paul Menke

Self - Town Board

Rosemary Nichols

Self - Town Attorney

T. Boone Pickens

Self

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