
Suburbia, 2008. Swept up in a heady pre-recession world of absentee parents, plentiful booze and casual sex, aspiring photographer Fisher Miller escapes his middle-class life for the moneyed mansions of the young, beautiful elite. With a stash of high-quality weed and a vintage camera, he gains access to his gorgeous cousin Kate's circle of wealthy and indulged friends, just as their entitled reality is about to spin out of control. A revealing take on the hidden perils of pr... (Full plot summary below)
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Suburbia, 2008. Swept up in a heady pre-recession world of absentee parents, plentiful booze and casual sex, aspiring photographer Fisher Miller escapes his middle-class life for the moneyed mansions of the young, beautiful elite. With a stash of high-quality weed and a vintage camera, he gains access to his gorgeous cousin Kate's circle of wealthy and indulged friends, just as their entitled reality is about to spin out of control. A revealing take on the hidden perils of privilege.
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| AV ClubMike D'AngeloThe film is an empty shell, reducing a complex lament to a shallow portrait of wealthy hedonists behaving badly. |
| Entertainment WeeklyStephan LeeThe generational conflict — overly ambitious parents and their disaffected millennial children — plays so on-the-nose it almost seems like satire, but it’s really just bad writing. |
| Los Angeles TimesSheri LindenThe movie opens with the suggestion that it will address the generational divide, but it has nothing of substance to say. |
| New York PostSara Stewart“Gatsby” meets “Gossip Girl” in this outsider-among-the-wealthy story set, like Fitzgerald’s novel, on Long Island. |
| The DissolveChris KlimekNothing is revealing or surprising in this horse-beating tale of spiritual poverty among the extremely wealthy. It’s uninvolving enough to make Ayn Rand herself beg for a bailout. |
| Village VoiceAbby GarnettThe film is dragged down by its awkwardly paradoxical story, which tries too hard to care too little. |
| RogerEbert.comSheila O'MalleyAffluenza thinks it is deep when it is merely trite. It illuminates nothing. |
| Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckUltimately feels as shallow as the lives of most of its principal characters. |
| Paste MagazineBrent SimonA stilted, utterly phony drama of rich-kid angst that thinks it's saying something about the hidden perils of privilege but is actually just an exercise in wheel-spinning inanity. |
| Slant MagazineSteve MacfarlaneThe film is like an episode of Gossip Girl that's mistaken itself for one of the great satires by Evelyn Waugh. |