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Plot Summary
This incredibly uplifting documentary explores how Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus has managed to harness the power of the free market to help solve the problems of poverty, hunger and inequality by offering microcredit, an innovative banking program that provides poor people - mainly women - with small loans they use to launch businesses and lift their families out of poverty. Over the past 30 years, his Grameen Bank has helped over 100 million families and has revolutionized the concept of social business entirely. A FilmBuff presentation.
Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
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55%- Reviews Counted: 11
- Fresh: 6
- Rotten: 5
- Average Rating: 6.7/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Rotten: Feels more like a free-market sales pitch than like a critical look at one weapon in the poverty-fighting arsenal that may or may not offer long-term hope.
Fresh: Packed with details that somehow don't weigh it down, this is a hopeful film - about the power of honest work to confer dignity as well as put food on the table, about how the seed of an idea can take root and grow.
Rotten: Grameen empowers budding entrepreneurs and lends to one out of every thousand people on the planet, which ain't no thrill ride in cinematic form.
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