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Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: MAGNOLIA HOME ENTERTAINMENT
EAN: 0876964000864
Label: Magnolia
Manufacturer: Magnolia
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Magnolia
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 05, 2007
Running Time: 87 minutes
Sales Rank: 4293
Studio: Magnolia
Theatrical Release Date: 2005
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Product Description:
Maxed Out takes viewers on a journey deep inside the American style of debt where things seem fine as long as the minimum monthly payment arrives on time. Shocking and incisive Maxed Out paints a picture of a national nightmare which is all too real for most of us.Runtime:87 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES/MISC. Rating: NR UPC: 876964000864 Manufacturer No: 10086
Amazon.com:
In Maxed Out, author/director James D. Scurlock (Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit and the Era of Predatory Lenders) takes on America's debt crisis. Consequently, he touches on related issues like race, corporate malfeasance, and political subterfuge. Scurlock’s multi-media approach incorporates statistics, news excerpts, and interviews, but it's rarely dull (comedy bits from Louis CK and tunes from Queen and Coldplay don't hurt). Speakers include economic professors, debt collectors, pawn brokers, investigative reporters, beleaguered consumers, and even Robin Leach (Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous). Instead of New York and Los Angeles, he concentrates on mid-size cities, like Minneapolis, Oklahoma City, and Seattle. Plenty of small towns also come into play. Though he never presses the point himself, Scurlock allows his subjects to note the similarities between the credit industry and the drug trade (others use such incendiary terms as 'rape'). One thing he neglects to mention, however, is pride. If house payments are ruining your life, selling that property may be the only solution. In most cases, however, it's hard not to feel for those individuals who didn't know what they were getting into before they signed their lives away. For some viewers, this will be a dispiriting documentary--three subjects recount the suicides of relatives who found their debt too much to bear--but in explaining exactly how lenders and creditors make money, Maxed Out can help others to avoid some of their most egregious practices. In other words, debt may be a downer, but knowledge is power. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
Customer Reviews Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Biased, but good
This documentary highlights the predatory lending on the financial side and the monetary carelessness on the consumer side that is leading to an inflation of prices and a catastrophic debt problem.This was a great documentary that indulged in undeserved demonization of republicans and glorification of democrats.The conclusion advocates a communist redistribution of wealth.The national debt is frightening and overwhelming, but more government spending in a different direction is only escalating ... Read More
Rating:  - Maxed out
This is a very powerful dvd with much information that the government doesn't want us to know. The way it handles the economy is.. there's no real words to describe it, and to think there are people out there who want them to MANAGE THE ENTIRE HEALTH SYSTEM. Come on THINK, yes theres got to be a better way just not the gov't way.
Rating: - MAXED OUT
This is an excellent title that many people in the United States need to see. That it was shown on cable and not "prime time" TV (non-cable channels that many Americans watch) indicates that there are forces within the banking, advertising, and financial industries that want the current "status quo" of borrowers to remain "borrowers" and people who "owe."
I want to point out that it is the consumer's responsibility to read the "fine print" but when faced with "Ignorance," "evictions," ... Read More
Rating: - A wasted opportunity
I am a huge fan of documentaries and sample as many as I can. The credit card industry makes for a perfect subject as there are so much abuse from both its users and its issuers so I was hoping that the documentary would not limit its to the sleazy practices of the credit industry and how government has not done much to keep these people in check. That story has been told many times yet the angle that would have made it more interesting is how we as consumers fall prey to our own greed, entitlement, ... Read More
Rating: - A sobering look at the evils of debt, with solutions
Maxed Out (2006)
This film should be required viewing for anyone over the age of 18.Because that's the target age that credit card companies go after.
The chief culprits identified in this film are MBNA, one of the nation's largest credit card companies, major contributor to the George W. Bush campaign, and writer/sponsor of the revised bankruptcy law that Bush pushed through in 2005; Providian, a credit card company that targets the poor, mentally handicapped, and willfully ... Read More
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