American Casino

Name: American Casino
Genre: Documentary
Released: September 2, 2009
Duration: 89 min
Rating: 60

2009

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Argot Pictures | Release Date: September 2, 2009 | Unrated

Summary: This film finally explains how and why over $12 trillion of our money vanished into the American Casino. As the global financial system crumbles and outraged but impotent lawmakers fume at Wall Street titans, we see the casino’s endgame: Riverside, California a foreclosure wasteland given over to colonies of rats and methamphetamine labs,This film finally explains how and why over $12 trillion of our money vanished into the American Casino. As the global financial system crumbles and outraged but impotent lawmakers fume at Wall Street titans, we see the casino’s endgame: Riverside, California a foreclosure wasteland given over to colonies of rats and methamphetamine labs, where disease-bearing mosquitoes breed in their millions on the stagnant swimming pools of yesterday’s dreams. Filmed over twelve months in 2008, American Casino takes you inside a game that our grandchildren never wanted to play. (Arogot Pictures)… Expand

Director: Leslie Cockburn

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Unrated

Runtime: 89 min

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Michael Sragow

It's a nightmare that starts like a normal daytime drive and ends in a vortex-like sinkhole. Read full review

David Edelstein

Sensationally effective. Read full review

Dan Kois

You won't soon forget the therapist at Johns Hopkins who counsels recently homeless patients who've fallen into depression or substance abuse -- and then goes home to her own bitter foreclosure fight. Read full review

Scott Tobias

The film doesn’t come to life until too late in the game. Read full review

Ronnie Scheib

The filmmakers' metaphor of the housing market as a casino, with hard-working people's homes used as chips, although apt, may lack the visual and visceral excitement. Read full review

Dana Stevens

Feels workmanlike at times. Read full review

Joe Neumaier

The movie's lack of Michael Moore-style dynamism has a dulling effect. What saves it is the human face it puts on the crisis, and its indictment of corporate greed. Read full review

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