Greed

Michael Winterbottom's entertaining, over-the-top, wacky, intermittently funny, star-dotted (Isla Fisher, Shirley Henderson, Asa Butterfield, Stephen Fry, and Pearl Mack),104-minute, 2019 satire that focuses on the detailed, crazy preparations ten days preceding the extravagant 60th birthday celebration in Mykonos, Greece, for greedy, driven, bullying, foul-mouthed, egotistical, sarcastic, abusive, wheeler-dealer, billionaire British retail fashion mogul (Steve Coogan) whose popularity takes an enormous nosedive when he comes under the scrutiny of the British government due to his underhanded, shady financial shenanigans while his official biographer (David Mitchell) delves into his privileged childhood and commercial success with ultimate repercussions to everyone around him, especially the pittance-paid, overworked, third-world seamstresses (Dinita Gohil, et al.) in Sri Lanka and around the globe who end up working 12-hour days in appalling and dangerous conditions and living on top of one another in rundown, one-room shacks without running water while their clueless bosses and owners continue to pad their pocketbooks.
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