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Written by Sally Duros
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Friday, 02 March 2007 |
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Has the American Dream become the American Mirage because of the powerful debt industry? James Scurlock thinks so, and he makes a substantive case in the film, "Maxed Out," which starts a run at Chicago's Century Landmark Theater March 16. Scurlock, 34, a successful entrepreneur from Seattle, wanted to explore Americans' preoccupation with luxury as a way to better understand how we, as individuals and as a nation, have accumulated record levels of debt.
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Contributed by James D. Scurlock
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Wednesday, 27 December 2006 |
Our credit cards are at their limits, our accounts overdrawn, and our houses mortgaged to the hilt. Yet even before we've digested the turkey and unwrapped our last presents, millions of us are heading for the sales, desperate to buy, buy, buy.
Publishers love the month after Christmas. Fresh from weeks of over-indulging on food and credit cards, a great throng invades bookshops for advice on losing weight and getting out of debt in what constitutes the largest - and ultimately fruitless - mea culpa on earth.
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Last Updated ( Wednesday, 27 December 2006 )
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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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Written by Teresa McUsic
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Friday, 29 September 2006 |
Documentary looks at lending and practices of debt collectors
Consumerism has hit independent movies, in the wake of indie hits such as 2004's Super Size Me, about the fast-food industry, and this year's An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore's warning about global warming.
Now comes Maxed Out, an independent film on the credit-card and collection industries made with the help of two local consumer pit bulls: advocate Bud Hibbs and attorney Jerry Jarzombek.
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Last Updated ( Monday, 20 November 2006 )
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Written by staff
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Sunday, 12 March 2006 |
The morning after the premier of Maxed Out, Director James D. Scurlock and a handful of the characters depicted in Maxed Out enjoyed the Sunday brunch at the Four Seasons Hotel in downtown Austin.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 21 November 2006 )
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