The One Percent

The One Percent

Infobox film


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name=The One Percent
director=Jamie Johnson
producer=Jamie Johnson
Nick Kurzon
cinematography=Nick Kurzon
editing=Matthew Hamachek
Nick Kurzon
Michael Levine
music=Robert Miller
imdb_id=819791
website=http://www.theonepercentdocumentary.com/

"The One Percent" is a 2006 documentary about the growing wealth gap between America's wealthy elite and the citizenry on the whole. It was created by Jamie Johnson, heir to the Johnson & Johnson fortune, and produced by Jamie Johnson and Nick Kurzon.Fact|date=March 2008 The film's title refers to the top one percent of Americans in terms of wealth, who control forty percent or more of the nation's wealth.Fact|date=March 2008

The film premiered on April 29, 2006, at the Tribeca Film Festival. It is reported to have been purchased by HBO, with a planned air date in early 2008.

A revised version of the film, substantially re-edited and incorporating footage shot since the 2006 festival screening, premiered on Thursday, February 21 at 6:30pm ET/PT on Cinemax.

"New York Post's" Page Six that Warren Buffett had written a letter to Nicole Lisi Buffett, his son Peter's ex-wife's daughter from another marriage, in response to her participation in the film. Distancing himself from her, he wrote "I have not emotionally or legally adopted you as a grandchild, nor have the rest of my family adopted you as a niece or a cousin."Fact|date=March 2008

Interviews

The film is 80 minutes long and features sometimes-humorousWho|date=March 2008 interviews with a wide range of interviewees:

*Nicole Buffett, Warren Buffett's son's adopted daughter from a previous marriage, whom he denies "legal and emotional" links to.cite web
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title=The Rich Man's Michael Moore: Why an Heir Continues to Document -- and Anger -- the Wealthy
date=2008-02-23
accessdate=2008-02-25
publisher=Wall Street Journal
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*Chuck Collins, estate tax proponent, author, and heir to the Oscar Meyer fortune
*Steve Forbes Jr., son of Malcolm Forbes, former presidential candidate, and proponent of a flat tax
*Milton Friedman, 1976 winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics
*Bill Gates Sr., father of Bill Gates and opponent of an estate tax repeal
*Adnan Khashoggi, international arms merchant
*Roy Martin
*Karl Muth, investment banking heir
*Paul Orfalea, founder of Kinko's
*Robert Reich, former U.S. Secretary of Labor
*Greg Schell

Quotes

*Jamie Johnson:"Do you think your [children] have any chance of becoming rich?"
*Cabrini Green resident: "Hell no. My [kids] ain't gonna be no rapper."

Notable Mentions

*"The One Percent" was mentioned on the "Oprah" show entitled "Class In America" first aired on April 21, 2006.Fact|date=March 2008

References

External links

[http://www.theonepercentdocumentary.com/ The One Percent Documentary]


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