Born Rich (2003 film)
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Directed by | Jamie Johnson |
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Cinematography | Nick Kurzon |
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Music by | Joel Goodman |
Production companies | Wise and Good Film, LLC |
Distributed by | HBO |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $150,000[3] |
Born Rich is a 2003
Cast
- Georgina Bloomberg — born to New York City mayor and media mogul, Michael Bloomberg.[9]
- Stephanie Ercklentz — born to
- Christina Floyd — born to golf champion, Raymond Floyd.[13]
- Cody Franchetti — an Italian baron and Milliken textiles heir, born to actress Angelica Ippolito and Baron Andrea Franchetti, son of Baron Mario Franchetti and American heiress Anne Milliken.[4][14][15]
- Juliet Hartford — born to model Diane Brown and A&P heir, Huntington Hartford, grandson of a principal founder of A&P, George Huntington Hartford.[16][17][18]
- Josiah Cheston Hornblower — a Vanderbilt / Whitney heir born to Alexandra Thorne, daughter of Whitney Tower, a grandson of Gertrude Vanderbilt and Harry Payne Whitney.[19][20] He is also a descendant of Josiah Hornblower, a delegate from New Jersey to the Continental Congress.[19]
- Jamie Johnson — born to Johnson & Johnson heir, James Loring Johnson, son of John Seward Johnson I.[5]
- S.I. Newhouse IV — born to Condé Nast publishing heir, Samuel Irving Newhouse III, son of Samuel Irving Newhouse Jr.[21]
- Ivanka Trump — born to real estate tycoon and 45th US President, Donald Trump,[22] son of real estate developer Fred Trump.[23]
- Benjamin Luke Weil — son of
Production
Development and pre-production
Made over a three-year period while he was a history student at
It took three years to make as most of the young heirs contacted to participate in the film turned him down,
Filming
By summer of 2000, after a year of filming, most of those interviewed were asking Johnson to take them out of the movie.
Post-production
The
Weil alleged in the lawsuit that he had been "tricked" into participating in what he thought would solely be a school project.
The film had been submitted to the Sundance Film Festival when the court ruling was reported by the press in October 2002.[40][43] Changes were apparently made to the film after Weil became incensed after the film's debut at Sundance.[3][41] Wittenborn remarked on Weil's reaction to the film, "We could have made him [Weil] look worse. We were being kind." Johnson concurred that there was "some reservation on our part in terms of editing".[33] Johnson thought that Weil was "the most honest person in the film",[35] who was "willing to say things...that may reflect what our peers are thinking all the time."[36]
Release
Born Rich was selected for a noncompetition screening at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival,[44] where it was a hit.[45][46] The film premiered at Sundance on January 19, 2003, in the American Spectrum category.[1][47] Every seat at the screening was occupied and a couple dozen people were turned away.[32] Sheila Nevins, executive vice president for original programming at HBO, decided to see the film at Sundance when she saw a line around the block for it.[4] An edited version of the film was produced after it was acquired by HBO.[41] In July 2003, it was promoted at the HBO presentation at the Television Critics Association convention in Los Angeles by Johnson and three film subjects.[41][48]
Johnson was on The Oprah Winfrey Show to discuss Born Rich in a namesake episode that also featured Paris Hilton and Nicky Hilton, two days before HBO's big screen premiere of the film in New York City on October 15, 2003.[49][50] Five heirs from the film attended the premiere with Johnson.[33][50] According to Johnson, although Georgina Bloomberg did not attend the opening, she sent him a note afterwards saying she was happy with the film's success and the wide audiences that were able to see it.[33] A week before the premiere, some of Georgina's remarks in the film were reported in a New York Daily News article that included a response from a spokesperson for her father, the then mayor of New York.[51] There were sold-out screenings of the film in New York for weeks.[3] Johnson appeared with S.I. Newhouse IV on Paula Zahn Now on CNN to discuss the film the day before its October 24, 2003 premiere at the Hamptons International Film Festival.[4][52]
Johnson was also interviewed about the film on
Born Rich was the first of several television shows about the wealthy that fall season.
In an Avenue Magazine interview about the film ten years after its release, Johnson said, "Now,
Accolades
The documentary was nominated for two
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Kneeling - Cody Franchetti and S.I. Newhouse IV Back row - HBO Executive Producer Sheila Nevins, Producer Sara Bernstein, Producer Dirk Wittenborn, Director Jamie Johnson, Ivanka Trump, and Juliet Hartford
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