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  • 2015
  • PG-13
  • Life Is My Movie Entertainment Company
  • 1 h 32 m
  • 2015
  • PG-13
  • Life Is My Movie Entertainment Company
  • 1 h 32 m

Summary This is a story about clothing. It’s about the clothes we wear, the people who make them, and the impact the industry is having on our world. The price of clothing has been decreasing for decades, while the human and environmental costs have grown dramatically.

Directed By: Andrew Morgan

Written By: Andrew Morgan

  • 2015
  • PG-13
  • Life Is My Movie Entertainment Company
  • 1 h 32 m
  • 2015
  • PG-13
  • Life Is My Movie Entertainment Company
  • 1 h 32 m

The True Cost

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 4 Critic Reviews
46
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 11 User Ratings
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Summary This is a story about clothing. It’s about the clothes we wear, the people who make them, and the impact the industry is having on our world. The price of clothing has been decreasing for decades, while the human and environmental costs have grown dramatically.

Directed By: Andrew Morgan

Written By: Andrew Morgan

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Metascore
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25% Negative
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70
May 28, 2015
Offering few solutions beyond a single fair-trade fashion company, The True Cost — whose serene interludes compete with sickening recordings of Black Friday shopping riots and so-called clothing haul videos — stirs and saddens. Not least because it’s unlikely to reach the young consumers most in need of its revelations.
By Jeannette Catsoulis FULL REVIEW
50
May 28, 2015
One would almost be inclined to give Morgan a pass for interviewing some of his executive producers as expert sources. A bigger disappointment is the missed opportunity to address the significant retailer markups that could have gone toward improving sweatshop conditions instead of profit margins.
By Martin Tsai FULL REVIEW
50
May 26, 2015
The True Cost’s aim is to make it impossible to ignore fashion’s impact on the world, and it takes an admirably thorough approach to its unwieldy subject. It’s not a particularly cinematic approach, however.
By Genevieve Koski FULL REVIEW
20
May 26, 2015
Even if, like me, you agree with the points that it's fumbling toward, The True Cost will likely read as dopey and insulting.
By Alan Scherstuhl FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Life Is My Movie Entertainment Company, Untold Creative, Untold
Release Date May 29, 2015
Duration 1 h 32 m
Rating PG-13
Genres
Tagline The future is on sale.
Website http://truecostmovie.com/
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Awards

Environmental Media Awards, USA
• 1 Nomination
Cinema for Peace Awards
• 1 Nomination

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