
In 2008, the Siegel family was top of the heap with the wealthy and politically influential David Siegel running the successful Westgate Resorts time-share business. To enjoy their good life, he and his engineer turned beauty queen trophy wife, Jackie, were building the largest single family private home in America. Suddenly, both the US economy and Westgate were rocked by the devastating sub-prime mortgage collapse. In the new economic reality with the business teetering on ... (Full plot summary below)
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In 2008, the Siegel family was top of the heap with the wealthy and politically influential David Siegel running the successful Westgate Resorts time-share business. To enjoy their good life, he and his engineer turned beauty queen trophy wife, Jackie, were building the largest single family private home in America. Suddenly, both the US economy and Westgate were rocked by the devastating sub-prime mortgage collapse. In the new economic reality with the business teetering on ruin, we follow the Siegels as they struggle to scale down their grotesquely ostentatious lifestyle. For this overprivileged family, accepting that situation proved a dispiriting struggle even as their unfinished dream home became a monument of their superficial values.
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| St. Paul Pioneer PressChris Hewitt (St. Paul)The pride, gluttony and inexplicable romance in the tale are almost Shakespearean. |
| Washington PostAnn HornadayThe Queen of Versailles turns out to be a portrait -- appalling, absorbing and improbably affecting -- of how, even within a system seemingly designed to ensure that the rich get richer, sometimes the rich get poorer. |
| St. Paul Pioneer PressChris HewittThe pride, gluttony and inexplicable romance in the tale are almost Shakespearean. |
| Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsAn indelible portrait of an American family at its most blithely macabre. |
| RedEyeMatt PaisIn director Lauren Greenfield's tremendous documentary packed with terrific details, greed is not good. It is a slow, self-inflicted wound whose pain hits hard and fast. |
| San Francisco ChronicleAmy BiancolliThrough a clear lens unclouded by politics or blame, it offers insight into the hazardous American practice of living beyond our means. |
| Minneapolis Star TribuneColin Covert"The Queen of Versailles" is beautifully constructed and frequently uproarious. |
| FilmDrunkVincent ManciniA well-told tale about having to atone for sins of the sub-prime era. |
| Philadelphia Daily NewsGary ThompsonThere are improbably involving human stories here. |
| Boston GlobeTy BurrQueen of Versailles is still worthwhile, not because it questions all-American entitlement but because it prompts us to think hard about what, exactly, we believe we're entitled to. |