
In this David and Goliath story for the 21st century, a group of proud Scottish homeowners take on celebrity tycoon Donald Trump as he buys up one of Scotland's last wilderness areas to build a golf resort.... (Full plot summary below)
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In this David and Goliath story for the 21st century, a group of proud Scottish homeowners take on celebrity tycoon Donald Trump as he buys up one of Scotland's last wilderness areas to build a golf resort.
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| Daily Express (UK)Henry FitzherbertEye-opening and hugely entertaining, with a stirring score, the picture is a well-timed poke-in-eye for the contemptuous rich. |
| What CultureShaun MunroA terrifying doc that only grows more fascinating and infuriating as its filmmakers, drawn into the drama themselves, let go of their impartiality. |
| GuardianCatherine ShoardIt treads lightly on the earth: an example, as well as an education. |
| Daily Telegraph (UK)Tim RobeyThe movie is clearly reasoned and elegantly constructed. |
| The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayAside from the corny title, Anthony Baxter's You've Been Trumped is a fine, powerful piece of documentary filmmaking, using old-fashioned vérité techniques - and more than a little audience manipulation - to show how political influence and media savvy help the wealthy exert their will. |
| Total FilmSimon KinnearA vital, visceral antidote to Trump's slick PR machine. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertIn medieval times, the nobility enjoyed something called droit du seigneur, their right to deflower their serfs' virgin daughters before their marriage. These days the nobility has been replaced by billionaire bullies, who continue to screw us serfs. |
| NPRJeannette CatsoulisI went to school in Aberdeen and know the region well. It's a place of unforgiving winds and magnificent sunsets, harsh farmland and deserted beaches. The people are hardy, hardworking and fiercely self-sufficient, asking little of their government except the will to do the right thing. They weren't Trumped; they were betrayed. |
| Los Angeles TimesKenneth Turan"You've Been Trumped" is a potent study of the intimidating power of money not in theory but on the ground, an examination of how a wealthy man with a boundless sense of entitlement can strong-arm all opposition without really breaking a sweat. |
| Flick FilosopherMaryAnn JohansonMeet the people with the temerity live on land Trump wanted before he got there. Trump's behavior in Aberdeenshire, as documented by Baxter, is a microcosm of Trump's awfulness overall. |