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Heist Who Stole the American Dream? is a 2011 documentary film, which argues that government deregulation led to the Great Recession. It was directed and produced by Donald Goldmacher and journalist Frances Causey and narrated by Thom Hartmann. The documentary is partially based on Jeff Fauxs 2006 book The Global Class War. The film traces the roots of the Great Recession to Virginia lawyer Lewis F. Powell, Jr., whose 1971 memo to the United States Chamber of Commerce urged corporate America to become more aggressive in molding politics and law.

Heist received generally positive reviews from critics. Slant Magazine called the documentary remarkably balanced and eventoned. It was designated a Critics Pick by The New York Times, with Stephen Holden remarking that the film has the virtue of taking the long view of a crisis that recent films like Inside Job and Too Big to Fail have only sketchily explored. Nick Schager, in The Village Voice, criticized the films structure, writing that Combining archival news broadcasts and photos, contemporary protest footage, talkinghead interviews, and graphical and cartoon interludes, its a work that continues the liberalpolitical documentary subgenres own war against aesthetic maturity and inventiveness. Kam Williams of AALBC.com called the film A persuasive case for the swift reinstatement of watchdog laws to prevent bailedout Wall Street from turning the American Dream into a neverending nightmare for folks on Main Street.

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