Think of this important documentary as Economics 101, a primer on how America and Americans spend, and what hardships the future holds for us unless we change the pattern and our habits quickly.
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06/27/09
I.O.U.S.A. (2008)
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Reviews Counted:56
Fresh:51
Rotten:5
Average Rating:7.3/10
Consensus: A potent and lithely constructed documentary about America's financial crisis, I.O.U.S.A grabs you with figures but holds you with irreverent wit.
Runtime: 85 mins
Genre: Education/General Interest
US Box Office: $634,829
Synopsis: Wake up, America! We’re on the brink of a financial meltdown. I.O.U.S.A. boldly examines the rapidly growing national debt and its consequences for the United States and its citizens. As the Baby... [More]
Starring: David Walker, William Bonner, Warren Buffett, Ron Paul
Director: Patrick Creadon
Reviews for I.O.U.S.A.
For a film starring the national debt, this is a good one. The expected tedious numerical research is accompanied by excellent graphics and archival footage that bring it alive. Is anyone listening?
02/23/09
Practically begs audiences to declaim it essential viewing, rather than quietly convincing us
02/22/09
Fending off the global repo man
02/05/09
I.O.U.S.A manages to keep this dense, dry information dynamic enough to be interesting and terrifying enough to be important.
12/17/08
If you believe the terrifying documentary I.O.U.S.A., America is headed for a financial crisis of monumental proportions - and apparently, we are probably too late to keep it from happening.
12/07/08
Its aim is to raise awareness of an impending financial disaster if America continues acting fiscally and morally irresponsible.
11/20/08
[A] timely documentary...There is a sense of urgency that propels Creadon's cautionary narrative as an alarming wake-up call to financial discipline.
11/20/08
Creadon avoids turning his film into a partisan slugfest, instead opting to focus on how our country as a whole must come together.
11/17/08
This solid doc reminds us how unsustainable the current American economy is.
11/14/08
A film with an urgent message that uses the medium to its advantage.
11/14/08
Unexpectedly entertaining, given that it’s about dodgy accounting on an epic scale, the film predicts an economic cold shower that is about to douse America’s prospects, thanks to its ever-expanding national debt.
11/14/08
Top CriticThis movie is a scary, exhilarating blast of atheist common sense.
11/14/08
Top CriticPatrick Creadon's film is a lucid history lesson in the failures of successive Republican presidents to put a stopper in the country's leaking fiscal hole.
11/14/08
Chastening, compelling.
11/14/08
It makes a very good effort at trying to cover this enormous, important, complex issue of the national debt in less than an hour and a half.
11/13/08
Although the movie is unabashedly alarming, it's also intelligent fun.
11/07/08
as essential viewing as any common sense advice you've received from parents/grandparents about living within your means
11/01/08
An informative and frightening documentary about America's inability to pay as it goes and the looming consequences of this shortsightedness.
10/31/08
A movie that should be seen by everyone.
10/31/08
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