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Freakonomics
Directed by
Rachel Grady
,
Heidi Ewing
,
Alex Gibney
PG-13
2010
1h 33m
Documentary
6.3
66%
51%
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A collection of documentaries that explores the hidden side of human nature through the use of the science of economics.
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Cast of Freakonomics
Zoe Sloane
Blake
Jade Viggiano
High School Girl
Amancaya Aguilar
Mercedes
Kahiry Bess
Deshawn
Alisha Nagarsheth
Student
Alyssa Wheeldon
High School Girl
Samuel Soifer
Jake
Kellie Geradi
Lexus
Greg Crowe
Johnny the Mechanic
Andrew Greiche
Jake
Adesuwa Addy Iyare
Temptress' Mother
James Leibow
Himself
Jalani McNair
Loser
Mike MacAllister
Himself
Carl Alleyne
Boyfriend
Kelli Chaves
High School Girl
Peter Zerneck
All American Dad
Hassan Brown
Father
James Ransone
Himself
Bill Gates
Himself
John D. Rockefeller
Himself
Rachel Grady
Director / Writer
Heidi Ewing
Director / Writer
Alex Gibney
Director / Writer / Producer
Seth Gordon
Director
Eugene Jarecki
Director / Writer
Morgan Spurlock
Director / Writer
Jeremy Chilnick
Writer
Chris Romano
Producer
Rafi Chaudry
Producer
Chad Troutwine
Producer
Hilary Carr
Producer
Dan O'Meara
Producer
Peter Cerbin
Producer
Freakonomics Ratings & Reviews
TIME Magazine
Richard Corliss
When this freakumentary hooks up with Urail King, it gets an A.
Kansas City Star
Loey Lockerby
It's intellectual snack food, satisfying for a little while but always leaving you hungry for more.
Entertainment Spectrum
Keith Cohen
This 93-minute collection of short films finds an innovative way to pursue trivial data. It makes the often vague and elusive subject of economics interesting. It should encourage more viewers to read the book.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
The film is provocative but also scattershot and not nearly as conclusive as it pretends to be.
Slant Magazine
Lauren Wissot
Blame producer Chad Troutwine for bringing together an array of talented documentary filmmakers to try to coax life into material certainly not suited to the medium of film.
I.E. Weekly
Amy Nicholson
Sometimes, it has all the answers. More often, it just asks the right questions. And in today's 24-hour froth of insta-pundit analysis, we need curiosity more than certainty.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
Look, I enjoyed Freakonomics, I just can't really say how much so mainly because I'm still having issues buying all the information past on here as mathematical fact.
NPR
Mark Jenkins
The movie version of Freakonomics functions as a reasonably effective trailer, but for a book whose moment has already passed.
IndieWire
Eric Kohn
Equal parts journalistic expose and targeted anthropological dissection, the slick anthology production Freakonomics makes heavy ideas go down easy.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
There is more material here to chew on than in a dozen other documentaries combined. And that's a good thing. No?
New York Times
Stephen Holden
Amiably passes the time.
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
[It] isn't freaky enough.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Freakonomics examines social, cultural, and financial issues with an eye to getting people to think differently.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
An attempt to turn the 2005 nonfiction bestseller into a high-energy docu-romp, "Freakonomics'' is a misconceived botch.
AV Club
Tasha Robinson
Like the 2005 bestseller that inspired it, the movie version of Freakonomics is fleet and accessible, an enjoyably light and lively pop artifact aimed at bringing some unusual economic theories to the masses.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
As a movie, Freakonomics is like Jujubes for the brain -- it starts to get cloying halfway through the box.
Village Voice
Dan Kois
The 20-minute shorts range in style from traditional fly-on-the-wall narrative to a kind of hyperactive PowerPoint presentation.
Variety
John Anderson
dds up to a revelatory trip into complex, innovative ideas and altered perspectives on how people think.
The Hollywood Reporter
Frank Scheck
Like the source material, it's ultimately less than the sum of its parts -- an assemblage of moderately interesting human interest stories that don't carry much weight on the big screen.
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