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Payback
Directed by
Jennifer Baichwal
2012
82m
Not Rated
Documentary
6.3
73%
56%
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An adaptation of Margaret Atwood's book examining the metaphor of indebtedness.
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Cast of Payback
Eric Schlosser
Self
Margaret Atwood
Self - Author
Conrad Black
Self
Francis Dolan
Self
Jon Esformes
Self - Owner, Pacific Tomator Growers
Raj Patel
Self
Gerardo Reyes
Self - Coalition of Immokalee Workers
Rodney Lyons
Self
Gregorio Venegas
Self
Ilir Prenaga
Self - Petrit's Older Brother
Louise Arbour
Self
Lucas Benitez
Self - Coalition of Immokalee Workers
Paul Mohammed
Self
William Rees
Self
Pashke Prenaga
Self
Petrit Prenaga
Self
Karen Armstrong
Self
Casi Callaway
Self - Mobile Baykeeper
Llesh Prenaga
Self
Gjin Marku
Self - Committee for Nationwide Reconciliation
Florence Barran
Self - Paul's Mother
Payback Reviews
New York Times
A.O. Scott
You can't help feeling that the movie owed its subject - and its audience - a bit more.
Boston Globe
Mark Feeney
There's a splendid audacity in Baichwal trying to bring to the screen something as idea-driven as Atwood's book.
AV Club
Noel Murray
Adapting non-fiction to cinema can be tricky even for a documentarian, but Jennifer Baichwal makes a game effort at turning Margaret Atwood's book-length essay Payback: Debt And The Shadow Side Of Wealth into a movie.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
Baichwal could have devoted a single film to just BP's disgraceful behavior.
Spirituality & Practice
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
An earnest and edifying documentary on the philosophical and ethical ramifications of debt as something owed.
Maven's Nest
Nora Lee Mandel
Brings to life serious discussions of philosophical issues through impassioned case studies [but] works too hard for an upbeat ending.
NPR
Mark Jenkins
Ultimately, this intriguing but scattershot movie turns on the incompatibility of two worldviews - the corporate-financial vs. the environmental-spiritual.
Village Voice
Mark Holcomb
Cinematic globe-trotting doesn't necessarily trump reading a good book, it turns out; then again, more movies should be burdened with the flaw of being too intellectually curious.
Slant Magazine
Bill Weber
This doc on the many forms of human debt, though often frustratingly broad, offers a path to balancing civilization's ledger with a hard-nosed brand of altruism.
Variety
Rob Nelson
A rarefied conceptual docu that will appeal to a limited but highly appreciative audience.
East Bay Express
Kelly Vance
Makes similar points as several other docs, but in a more labored and tedious way.
Film Journal International
David Noh
Three real-life horror stories are linked by the theme of debt in this informative but sometimes wandering doc.
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