Rotten
"Generation Startup" has lofty goals, but its reach is overextended.
Adam Graham, Detroit News
Generation Startup
Learning to fail. Redefining success.
2016 · 1h 33m · N/A
Documentary
Directed by
Cynthia Wade
,
Cheryl Miller Houser
Overview
Generation Startup takes us to the front lines of entrepreneurship in America, capturing the struggles and triumphs of six recent college graduates who put everything on the line to build startups in Detroit. Shot over 17 months, it's an honest, in-the-trenches look at what it takes to launch a startup. Directed by Academy Award winner Cynthia Wade and award-winning filmmaker Cheryl Miller Houser, the film celebrates risk-taking, urban revitalization, and diversity while delivering a vital call-to-action-with entrepreneurship at a record low, the country's economic future is at stake.
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60%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Startup will speak to many young viewers who're struggling to figure out not just where to make their talents useful in the world, but what those talents are in the first place.
John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter
Fresh
By the time "Generation Startup" is over, you feel like you've spent some quality time with people who incarnate both the unique opportunities offered to their generation and, in a certain unstated way, the lack of opportunities.
Owen Gleiberman, Variety
Rotten
It's not very interesting!
Chris Packham, Village Voice
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