A co-worker understandably laughed today when I told her I wept while watching a documentary about . . . consumer debt.  No Katrina, no Taliban, no Holocaust.  Credit cards.

Maxed Out’s effectiveness lies not only in the mind-blowing facts it reveals about predatory lending and our national deficit, but in its many well-told stories.  Every character, from the first-hand sufferers to the academic talking heads, has a story arc.  You grow to care for the people and understand them long before the most devastating aspects of their stories are revealed, and all the while well-timed facts and figures bolster the point.  It’s just a great film.  And Elizabeth Warren is my new hero.

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