The One Percent
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The One Percent is a 2006 documentary about the growing wealth gap between the very wealthiest Americans and those below. It was created by Jamie Johnson, heir to the Johnson & Johnson fortune, and produced by Jamie Johnson and Nick Kurzon. The film's title refers to the top one percent of Americans in terms of wealth, who control forty percent or more of the nation's wealth.
The film is 80 minutes long and features sometimes-humorous interviews with a wide range of interviewees:
(list is alphabetical and incomplete)
- Nicole Buffett, Granddaughter of Warren Buffett
- Chuck Collins, estate tax proponent, author, and heir to the Oscar Meyer fortune
- Steve Forbes Jr., son of Malcolm Forbes, former presidential candidate, and proponent of a flat tax
- Milton Friedman, 1976 winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics
- Bill Gates Sr., father of Bill Gates and opponent of an estate tax repeal
- Adnan Khashoggi, international arms merchant
- Roy Martin
- Karl Muth, investment banking heir
- Paul Orfalea, founder of Kinko's
- Robert Reich, former U.S. Secretary of Labor
- Greg Schell
[edit] Quotes
- Jamie Johnson:"Do you think your [children] have any chance of becoming rich?"
- Cabrini Green Resident: "Hell no. My [kids] ain't gonna be no rapper."
[edit] Other Facts
The One Percent was mentioned on the Oprah show entitled "Class In America" first aired on April 21, 2006.
The film premiered on April 29, 2006, at the Tribeca Film Festival. It is reported to have been purchased by HBO, with a planned air date of late 2008.
In early September 2006, the film received its first publicity in months when it was revealed by the New York Post's Page Six that Warren Buffett had written a letter to Nicole Lisi Buffett, his son Peter's ex-wife's daughter from another marriage, in response to her participation in the film. Distancing himself from her, he wrote "I have not emotionally or legally adopted you as a grandchild, nor have the rest of my family adopted you as a niece or a cousin."
The film's official website is http://www.theonepercentdocumentary.com/
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