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Kajillionaire Review: Family is the Real Scam

Admit it—we all think it’d be fun to reenact an Ocean’s 11 heist in real life. To be part of a close-knit team, executing a brilliant score, getting one over on capitalism whether in the form of an evil corporation or a single individual so unfairly rich that you have to make up a word for his net worth. Kajillionaire, writer-director Miranda July’s third feature, punctures that soapy bubble of a fantasy by depicting a trio of amateur scammers whose precarious existence skimming off the top of society is anything but glamorous. Parents—in the loosest sense of the word—Robert (Richard…
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Kajillionaire: How the Evan Rachel Wood Movie Explores the ‘Mini-Cult’ of Family

Kajillionaire is the first feature film from writer-director Miranda July in which she isn’t also the star. It’s a different experience, stepping outside the frame and choosing instead to cast Evan Rachel Wood as her unconventional leading lady. But as the artistic polymath also tells us over a digital interview, she also “never [has] to stop looking at it from the outside.” The ‘it’ being an intimate portrait of a dysfunctional family of small-time scammers. “I could go further,” July says during her conversation, “I could be more devoted to the actors… I wasn’t in there with them, in the…
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Kajillionaire

Con-artists Theresa (Debra Winger) and Robert (Richard Jenkins) have spent 26 years training their only daughter, Old Dolio (Evan Rachel Wood), to swindle, scam, and steal at every opportunity. During a desperate, hastily conceived heist, they charm a stranger (Gina Rodriguez) into joining their next scam, only to have their entire world turned upside down.Rated: RRelease Date: Sep 25, 2020
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