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Do I Need This?
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[Played Jan. 6 as part of AARP's Movies for Grownups and available on various VOD platforms.] Kate Schermerhorn's informative, insightful, eye-opening, wit-dotted, highly personal, 63-minute documentary that discusses her relationship with her devoted parents in Orcas Island, Wash., and their connection as well as her own to stuff, the excessive buying habits of the American consumers and the perceived satisfaction and happiness derived from purchases, consists of commentary by economist/ sociologist and Plentitude author Juliet Schor, neurologist Peter Whybrow, psychology professor and Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things coauthor Randy Frost, organizer Kathleen Crombie, homeowner Milfie Howell, The Long Haul author Finn Murphy, minimalist Buddhist monk Thupten Donyo, collectors Rudy Contratti and LaVerne Ford Wimberly, education specialist Devi Peri, artists Judith Selby Lang and Richard Lang, Zero Waste Home author Bea Johnson, and wildfire survivor Jamey Gill.

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Year:
2023
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