The Joneses (2009)
Demi Moore, David Duchovny and Amber Heard star in this low budget effort from first time director Derrick Borte. A fake family moves to a high income area to stealth market to their affluent neighbours.
This is a really good little film about the increasing commercial nature of modern life and the drive to achieve happiness through materialism. The dark nature of the fake families way off life ultimately has a negative affect on others as well as themselves but it is interesting to see how the team start to bond and become a family themselves while looking for something more from their lives which makes us wonder about the place of the family in the modern world. All in all this is a well made film with a good cast and while given recent world economic conditions maybe we do not need a film to show us where we have gone wrong this is an entertaining film that is not overly preachy.
4/5 well worth watching.
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