Name: Emperor's New Clothes
Genre: Documentary, Political
Released: 2015
Duration: 1 min 39 s

Brief Synopsis

Cast & Crew

Film Details

MPAA Rating

Genre

Documentary

Political

Release Date

2015

Production Company

Revolution Films ; StudioCanal

Distribution Company

Studiocanal UK ; Sundance Selects

Technical Specs

Duration

1h 39m

Synopsis

British comedian and activist Russell Brand joins forces with director Michael Winterbottom on a polemical documentary about the financial crisis and gross inequality we currently face. Starting with the genesis of today's economic policies, with the arrival of Milton Friedman's school of thought in Reagan's leadership and Thatcher's UK, the film explores how these policies have come to dominate the western world. Using a mixture of documentary, interviews, archive footage and comedy, Russell Brand takes us from his hometown Grays in Essex, to the heart of London and on to the Big Apple, revealing the bewildering truth about how the people at the bottom are paying for the luxuries of those at the top.