Maxed Out
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"the bone-chilling, bloodcurdling, hair-raising story of a country (guess which one?) that's up to its eyeballs in credit-card debt." -- New York Magazine
Take a journey deep inside the brain of the American consumer, where things seem fine as long as the minimum monthly payment arrives on time. From small towns all the way to the White House, the film shows how the credit card industry really works, explains the true definition of "preferred customer" and tells us why the poor are getting poorer while the rich keep getting richer.
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Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit and the Era of Predatory Lenders (2006) is an independent feature-length documentary film and (2007) book that chronicles abusive practices in the credit card industry. Written and directed by James Scurlock, the film and book use interviews with creditors, debtors, academics, and others to illustrate its story. The film premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas, USA, in 2006 where it claimed the Special Jury Prize. It went on to several film fests including Seattle, Full Frame Documentary, Maui, New Zealand, Milwaukee International, Woodstock, Bergen, Leeds International, Oxford and IDFA (...
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