- The One Percent
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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 theJohnson & Johnson fortune, and produced byJamie Johnson andNick 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 2008The film premiered on April 29, 2006, at the
Tribeca Film Festival . It is reported to have been purchased byHBO , 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.
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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 2008Interviews
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
url=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120371859381786725.html?mod=fpa_mostpop
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
author=Robert, Frank]
*Chuck Collins ,estate tax proponent, author, and heir to theOscar Meyer fortune
*Steve Forbes Jr. , son ofMalcolm Forbes , former presidential candidate, and proponent of aflat tax
*Milton Friedman , 1976 winner of theNobel Prize in Economics
*Bill Gates Sr. , father ofBill Gates and opponent of an estate tax repeal
*Adnan Khashoggi , international arms merchant
*Roy Martin
*Karl Muth, investment banking heir
*Paul Orfalea , founder ofKinko's
*Robert Reich , former U.S.Secretary of Labor
*Greg SchellQuotes
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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 onApril 21 ,2006 .Fact|date=March 2008References
External links
[http://www.theonepercentdocumentary.com/ The One Percent Documentary]
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