Affluenza

Name: Affluenza
Genre: Drama
Released: July 11, 2014
Duration: 85 min
Rating: 30

2014

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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 12 Critic Reviews

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FilmBuff | Release Date: July 11, 2014 | Not Rated

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 cousinSuburbia, 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 cousin Kate's (Nicola Peltz) circle of wealthy and indulged friends, just as their entitled reality is about to spin out of control. [FilmBuff]… Expand

Director: Kevin Asch

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 85 min

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Sara Stewart

Jul 9, 2014

“Gatsby” meets “Gossip Girl” in this outsider-among-the-wealthy story set, like Fitzgerald’s novel, on Long Island. Read full review

Stephan Lee

Jul 11, 2014

The generational conflict — overly ambitious parents and their disaffected millennial children — plays so on-the-nose it almost seems like satire, but it’s really just bad writing. Read full review

Abby Garnett

Jul 10, 2014

The film is dragged down by its awkwardly paradoxical story, which tries too hard to care too little. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Sheila O'Malley

Jul 11, 2014

Affluenza thinks it is deep when it is merely trite. It illuminates nothing. Read full review

Mike D'Angelo

Jul 10, 2014

The film is an empty shell, reducing a complex lament to a shallow portrait of wealthy hedonists behaving badly. Read full review

Sheri Linden

Jul 17, 2014

The movie opens with the suggestion that it will address the generational divide, but it has nothing of substance to say. Read full review

Joe Neumaier

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. Read full review

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