What Is Life Worth (2020)
Genre: Biography / Drama
Duration: 118 minuten
Alternative title: Worth
Country:
United Kingdom / Canada / United States
Directed by: Sara Colangelo
Stars: Stanley Tucci, Michael Keaton and Amy Ryan
IMDb score:
6,8 (20.795)
Releasedate: 21 July 2021
What Is Life Worth plot
"Our national tragedy. Their personal suffering. His impossible task."
After the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, Congress appoints attorney Kenneth Feinberg to lead the September 11 Victim Compensation Fund. Caught between lawyers eager to press charges and airline lobbies eager to settle, Feinberg must make a deal with the victims' families.
Actors and actresses
Kenneth Feinberg
Camille Biros
Charles Wolf
Lee Quinn
Priya Khundi
Dede Feinberg
Karen Donato
Frank Donato
Darryl Barnes
Gloria Toms
Reviews & comments
scorsese
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- 13508 messages
- 11319 votes
Good film about a lawyer who has to ensure that the vast majority of the relatives of the 9/11 attacks reach a settlement. Fascinating material about an extremely difficult and sensitive process in which emotions can run high. Some good dialogues, but it is delivered quite dry and as a film in itself it is a bit on the boring side.
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mrklm
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- 12367 messages
- 10458 votes
Ken Feinberg [Michael Keaton], a renowned lawyer and the former chief of staff of Senator Ted Kennedy, is given the unenviable post-9/11 task of establishing a just system of financial compensation for the victims that would prevent them from leaving the airlines en masse. sue and file for bankruptcy. Feinberg has often hacked with this axe and together with his permanent employee Camille [Amy Ryan] devises a calculation system with which he thinks the next of kin can give a benefit that meets the value of the deceased. This immediately meets with resistance from those next of kin, but it is lawyer Charles Wolf [Stanley Tucci] who is the main thorn in the side. But he also turns out to be the one who knows how to help Ken and his team in the right direction. It is difficult to do justice to both the formal and the human issues without losing the viewer's attention, but Keaton impresses and portrays Feinberg as a bureaucrat who gradually discovers that the human dimension must be leading. That transformation is subtle and credible and holds the whole thing together, but that doesn't change the fact that his success is more a triumph for the airlines than for the victims of 9/11, which leaves a somewhat sour aftertaste.
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Movsin
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- 8358 messages
- 8456 votes
I've always wondered too. What is a human life worth? And how does one arrive at determining this in terms of monetary value. And what about infirmity, lifelong disability, illness over time...? How can that be reimbursed?
The most remarkable finding remains that the loss can never actually be recovered, but it is usually part of disasters that compensation is consumed.
In any case, the film "Worth" makes it clear that, in addition to a formula that may have been developed by the government, a personalized investigation into each individual case is necessary if one wants to arrive at a fair and acceptable result. For those involved with that assignment, it remains a difficult task, at times a nightmare, with a lot of resistance and ingratitude.
Thus, the film often offers interesting passages where facets of the problem are touched upon and explained, but there are also moments where the film is rather flat and therefore less interesting.
One can be satisfied with the acting.
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