Movie: Affluenza

Top 7 Billed Cast

Jennifer Gailus
Jennifer Gailus

Self

Scott Simon
Scott Simon

Self

Olivia Martin
Olivia Martin

Self

Keaton Adams
Keaton Adams

Self

Glenn Stanton
Glenn Stanton

Self

Joe Dominguez
Joe Dominguez

Self

Vicki Robin
Vicki Robin

Self

  • HomePage

    Affluenza

  • Overview

    A look at the modern-day problem of "affluenza," an epidemic of stress, overwork, shopping and debt caused by the pursuit of the American Dream. The history of the condition is explored, as well as the advertising and marketing ploys used to sustain it. Men and women from around the country share their stories of personal debt and suggestions for financial recovery.

  • Release Date

    1997-09-15

  • Average

    6.5

  • Rating:

    3.3 starts
  • Tagline

  • Genres

  • Languages:

    English
  • Keywords

Recommendations Movies

Chuck Norris vs Communism
71%

Chuck Norris vs Communism(ro)

2015-11-12

In late eighties, in Ceausescu's Romania, a black market VHS bootlegger and a courageous female translator brought the magic of Western films to the Romanian people and sowed the seeds of a revolution.

Serial Teachers 2
53%

Serial Teachers 2(fr)

2015-07-01

The worst teachers of France landed in England for an ultra-secret mission. With Boulard, the King of the Dunces, they are parachuted in the best school of the country, and they will apply their famous methods on the future of the nation.

The Little Bather
66%

The Little Bather(fr)

1968-03-22

Louis-Philippe Fourchaume, another typical lead-role for French comedy superstar Louis de Funès, is the dictatorial CEO of a French company which designs and produces sail yachts, and fires in yet another tantrum his designer André Castagnier, not realizing that man is his only chance to land a vital contract with the Italian magnate Marcello Cacciaperotti. So he has to find him at his extremely rural birthplace in 'la France profonde', which proves a torturous odyssey for the spoiled rich man; when he does get there his torment is far from over: the country bumpkin refuses to resume his slavish position now the shoe is on the other foot, so Fourchaume is dragged along in the boorish family life, and at times unable to control his temper, which may cost him more credit then he painstakingly builds up...

Monte Carlo
66%

Monte Carlo(en)

2011-07-01

Three young women vacationing in Paris find themselves whisked away to Monte Carlo after one of the girls is mistaken for a British heiress.

Beauty and the Beast
70%

Beauty and the Beast(en)

2017-03-16

A live-action adaptation of Disney's version of the classic tale of a cursed prince and a beautiful young woman who helps him break the spell.

Elizabeth
72%

Elizabeth(en)

1998-09-13

The story of the ascension to the throne and the early reign of Queen Elizabeth the First, the endless attempts by her council to marry her off, the Catholic hatred of her and her romance with Lord Robert Dudley.

The Danish Girl
76%

The Danish Girl(en)

2015-11-27

When Gerda Wegener asks her husband Einar to fill in as a portrait model, Einar discovers the person she's meant to be and begins living her life as Lili Elbe. Having realized her true self and with Gerda's love and support, Lili embarks on a groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer.

Timbuktu
70%

Timbuktu(fr)

2014-12-10

Just outside of the Malian city of Timbuktu, now occupied by militant Islamic rebels who impose the Sharia on civilians and inconvenience their daily life, a cattleman kills a fisherman.

Life Partners
58%

Life Partners(en)

2014-12-05

A 29-year-old lawyer and her lesbian best friend experience a dramatic shift in their longtime bond after one enters a serious relationship.

High School Musical 2
65%

High School Musical 2(en)

2007-08-17

The East High Wildcats are gearing up for big fun as they land the coolest summer jobs imaginable. Troy, Gabriella, Chad, and Taylor have scored sweet gigs at the Lava Springs Country Club owned by Sharpay and Ryan's family. Sharpay's first rule of business: Get Troy. As Troy experiences a life of privilege he's never known, will he give up the Wildcats and Gabriella to rise to the top?

Winning London
60%

Winning London(en)

2001-03-27

When Chloe and Riley Lawrence are invited to London to participate in the international Model U.N. competition, they enjoy seeing the sights and head over heals romance with cute british boys of course.

The Way Back
70%

The Way Back(en)

2010-11-22

At the dawn of WWII, several men escape from a Russian gulag—to take a perilous and uncertain journey to freedom as they cross deserts, mountains and several nations.

Dark Places
59%

Dark Places(en)

2015-04-08

A woman who survived the brutal killing of her family as a child is forced to confront the events of that day.

Caramel
69%

Caramel(ar)

2007-08-09

In a beauty salon in Beirut the lives of five women cross paths. The beauty salon is a colorful and sensual microcosm where they share and entrust their hopes, fears and expectations.

It Takes Two
65%

It Takes Two(en)

1995-11-17

Identical 9-year-olds from very different backgrounds: orphaned Amanda and wealthy Alyssa meet at summer camp and decide to switch places -- and play matchmaker between Alyssa's dad, Roger, and the kind social worker who cares for Amanda.

Chasing Liberty
62%

Chasing Liberty(en)

2004-01-09

The President's daughter, unable to experience life like a normal 18 year-old, escapes from her entourage of Secret Service agents while traveling in Europe. She falls in love with a handsome British stranger, who also happens to be working undercover for her father.

Uptown Girls
69%

Uptown Girls(en)

2003-08-15

Molly Gunn, the freewheeling daughter of a deceased rock legend, is forced to get a job when her manager steals her money. As nanny for precocious Ray, the oft ignored daughter of a music executive she learns what it means to be an adult while teaching Ray how to be a child.

Princess Protection Program
67%

Princess Protection Program(en)

2009-06-08

When her nation is invaded, a young princess is taken into the Princess Protection Program. She is relocated to Louisiana, where she stays with a covert agent and his tomboyish daughter, and must learn how to behave like an ordinary teenager.

Loving Only You
58%

Loving Only You(it)

2015-10-22

Lukewarm wedding acquires a new meaning when the father of the groom rekindles his long-time love for the mother of the bride.

Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie
71%

Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie(en)

2009-08-28

A young wizard accidentally conjures a spell that puts her family in jeopardy.

Similar Movies

Bananaland: Blood, Bullets & Poison
90%

Bananaland: Blood, Bullets & Poison(en)

2016-08-24

For consumers, bananas are a delicious and nutritious start to the day, a healthy snack and a fixture in our fruit bowls. For millions of residents in the banana lands, the production of bananas means social upheaval, violence and pesticide poisoning. Banana Land explores the origins of these disparate realities, and opens the conversation on how workers, producers and consumers can address this disconnect.

Onyx: Kings of the Grail
60%

Onyx: Kings of the Grail(en)

2019-03-22

Egypt, 11th century. When a famine ravages the country, the prosperous Andalusian kingdom of Denia comes to the aid of the sultan, who, in gratitude, gives Denia the most sought-after and coveted object in all of Christendom.

Hospedaria
70%

Hospedaria(pt)

2014-06-10

An old hostel, located in the center of Porto, served for many years as a hostel for people with few possessions, prostitutes and people passing through who made that place a more or less prolonged residence.

47 Days, Sound-less
0%

47 Days, Sound-less(en)

47 Days, Sound-less by Vietnamese artist Nguyễn Trinh Thi is a film that explores the relationships between sound and silence, vision, language, colours and their absence. Nguyễn identifies “peripheries”—including natural landscapes used as backdrops, uncredited characters and soundtracks from American and Vietnamese movies—that reveal more-than-human perspectives. Offering new ways of looking and listening, 47 Days, Sound-less invites audiences to reflect on the inextricable relationship between a place and its inhabitants.

No Measure of Health
0%

No Measure of Health(en)

No Measure of Health profiles Kyle Magee, an anti-advertising activist from Melbourne, Australia, who for the past 10 years has been going out into public spaces and covering over for-profit advertising in various ways. The film is a snapshot of his latest approach, which is to black-out advertising panels in protest of the way the media system, which is funded by advertising, is dominated by for-profit interests that have taken over public spaces and discourse. Kyle’s view is that real democracy requires a democratic media system, not one funded and controlled by the rich. As this film follows Kyle on a regular day of action, he reflects on fatherhood, democracy, what drives the protest, and his struggle with depression, as we learn that “it is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”

Logistics
76%

Logistics(xx)

2012-01-01

Logistics or Logistics Art Project is an experimental art film. At 51,420 minutes (857 hours or 35 days and 17 hours), it is the longest movie ever made. A 37 day-long road movie in the true sense of the meaning. The work is about Time and Consumption. It brings to the fore what is often forgotten in our digital, ostensibly fast-paced world: the slow, physical freight transportation that underpins our economic reality.

Le Perroquet dans sa Soucoupe (Short Version)
0%

Le Perroquet dans sa Soucoupe (Short Version)(en)

2024-05-24

A young shepherd explores his relationship with his pack and questions their future

A Day in the Life of a Consumer
50%

A Day in the Life of a Consumer(de)

1993-06-23

The film shows one day from waking up in the morning all the way to waking up again the next morning. The everyday situations that many commercials are made of, the little dramas that they create and solve through the product or service they sell, are stitched together into one day. This is a film about the everyday in (German, or Western-European) society because the commercials are part of the everyday of most people (everyone who watches television) and they depict an ideal image of society. The film abundantly uses repetition as an editing technique, in visual ways as described above, but also because commercials can be read in different ways. For instance, Brat baking foil shows up at the evening dinner sequence, when an ovendish is put on the table, and again later on in the sequence about going out to a classic concert, because the clip has classic music.

Black Thoughts
55%

Black Thoughts(en)

2020-08-12

A man that is a stranger, is an incredibly easy man to hate. However, walking in a stranger’s shoes, even for a short while, can transform a perceived adversary into an ally. Power is found in coming to know our neighbor’s hearts. For in the darkness of ignorance, enemies are made and wars are waged, but in the light of understanding, family extends beyond blood lines and legacies of hatred crumble.

I'm Sorry Cody
0%

I'm Sorry Cody(en)

2024-05-09

During the production of a documentary about his accordion-playing friend, a filmmaker pushes the boundaries of their relationship when a career opportunity presents itself.

How Every Film You Watch Tells You To Love The Rich and What To Do About It
0%

How Every Film You Watch Tells You To Love The Rich and What To Do About It(en)

2019-10-28

"How Every Film You Watch Tells You To Love The Rich and What To Do About It" explores the representations of wealth in cinema. It looks into how most beloved characters are subtly more well-off than they should be, how criticisms of the system are crushed, how the rich have become the average in the world of the cinema. And it shows how these stories distort the view of the real world, and are used against you by politicians.

Hacia restos insulares
0%

Hacia restos insulares(en)

Images captured inside the domestic space during confinement are reconverted into a journey towards sidereal environments. The light manifests. The shadow buries. The solid, the liquid and the gaseous: three different ways in which matter can appear.

Adagio
100%

Adagio(en)

2024-05-01

«I often have dreams. Careless dreams. When the sun was shining. It was calm and quiet. And a peaceful sky overhead.» An experimental musical film on the theme of love. Memories of the past excite the imagination and make you evaluate what is happening in the present in a new way.

Against the Law
70%

Against the Law(en)

2017-03-16

United Kingdom, March 24, 1954. Ten years before the decriminalization of homosexuality, journalist Peter Wildeblood and his friends Lord Montagu and Michael Pitt-Rivers are convicted and imprisoned for indecency and sodomy.

Nicola: Mussels, Kebab & Coca Cola
0%

Nicola: Mussels, Kebab & Coca Cola(it)

2021-12-06

Antonio, a filmmaker running out of ideas, has a vision of the city's patron, St. Nicholas, who asks him to make a film about his true story. So Antonio sets out on a journey in the myth's footsteps, crossing all the countries where the saint is revered. Turkey, Belgium, Holland, France, Russia, all the way to the United States, where he is better known as Santa Claus, i.e., Santa Claus. A journey in the midst of a melting pot of popular cultures and traditions, with all their contradictions, a journey through colors and religious rigor mixed together giving life to a sacred figure who is, at the same time, a consumerist model.

Fluch des Mittelmeers - Piraterie, Menschenraub und Sklaverei
80%

Fluch des Mittelmeers - Piraterie, Menschenraub und Sklaverei(de)

2024-10-04

Drama documentary based on the latest discovery of a 16th Century sailing shipwreck found close to Malta by an underwater research team led by maritime archaeologist Timmy Gambin.

Straight to VHS
59%

Straight to VHS(es)

2021-03-25

Act of Violence Upon a Young Journalist is a film shot in 1988 and released on VHS in 1989; a mysterious cult work of Uruguayan cinema surrounded by strange theories about Manuel Lamas, its unknown creator. Until now.

Inner Reflection
0%

Inner Reflection(ja)

A loose sequel to "Self Reflection", "Inner Reflection" is about art, memories, filmmaking, and the director themselves, told through disconnected visuals and a man suffering from violent delusions.