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Britain 'beats US for problem borrowing' |
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Written by The Guardian Staff
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Saturday, 23 December 2006 |
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First it was McDonald's (Super Size Me) and then climate change (An Inconvenient Truth). Now it is credit card companies that are about to come in for a celluloid kicking, with the release of Maxed Out, a new documentary and a book that exposes the dark underbelly of the US consumer boom.
Filmmaker James Scurlock set out to show how America is "crumbling beneath a staggering burden of individual and government debt". The film, which will be shown in British cinemas next year, reveals the tactics employed by financial companies for getting people into debt and keeping them there - and highlights some of the personal tragedies such as two college-age students who hanged themselves after becoming overwhelmed by credit card debt.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 27 December 2006 )
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