Bob Iger is barely out the door at the Walt Disney Company and a film from a scion of the founding family has already come along to give the well compensated ex-CEO a kick in the ass.
However, besides attracting a lot of attention, the Abigail Disney co-directed The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales documentary doesn’t have much to add to the discussions of income inequity, ice cold hearted corporations and the legacy of the Reagan Revolution, except a high profile and well-heeled surname.Debuting with its world premiere at the virtual Sundance Film Festival tonight as the House of Mouse’s stock took a whack from Wall Street, the Abigail E.
Disney and Kathleen Hughes directed The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales proves to be less an exercise for social and economic justice and more a vanity exercise with talking heads.Which is more than a real shame, it is a tragically missed opportunity.The nearly 90-minute film could have used the media attention that the “superpower,” as the film terms it, of the Disney name naturally attracts to put the spotlight on some very rotten and deep-rooted practices in this country that leave so many with so little despite working so hard.
Instead, ending with an email from its co-director to the very well paid Iger and new-ish Disney boss Bob Chapek, a ‘to be continued,” and a slate limply complimenting the company on recently increasing the wages of many employees to $18.50 in the next year, the docu meanders and missteps time and time again.Unlike W.
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