SummaryThe United States faces an enemy of epic proportions. It's not something you can see on CNN or YouTube. It's not as overtly in your face as wars, natural disasters or terrorism. But this invisible, insidious monster is rapidly growing into a behemoth, threatening to spark an unthinkable catastrophe that will impact the future of the nation and... Read More
Directed By:Patrick Creadon
Written By:Patrick Creadon, Christine O'Malley, Addison Wiggin, Kate Incontrera, William Bonner
I.O.U.S.A.
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Generally Favorable
70
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6.2
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
70
78% Positive
14 Reviews
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17% Mixed
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6% Negative
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If they handed out an Academy Award for Most Gripping Graphs and Charts, this film would take it.
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An informative and frightening documentary.
80
Highly informative documentary reps a heady mix of charts, graphs and talking heads... superb packaging and timely subject matter.
75
It's this year's "An Inconvenient Truth."
75
Though the filmmaking is playful at times, the film is essentially 90 percent message, 10 percent movie.
60
Both a handy election primer and a bowel-rattling cry of fiscal doom.
10
One graphic that I.O.U.S.A. doesn't include is a national balance sheet of our assets and liabilities, which would illustrate that the former is more than double the latter. We're in the black, and a film this deep in the red isn't something to be scared of at all -- or taken seriously.
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6.2
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Production Company:
- O'Malley Creadon Productions
- Open Sky Entertainment
- Peter G. Peterson Foundation
Release Date:Aug 22, 2008
Duration:1 h 25 m
Rating:PG
Tagline:One Nation. Under Stress. In Debt.
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Awards
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
• 1 Nomination
Critics Choice Awards
• 1 Nomination
Online Film Critics Society Awards
• 1 Nomination
