Excellent adaptation.

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Jamie Johnson was trying to make the point, that just because you have so much money does not mean you use it for things that aren't important. All the kids that were born into being rich don't like when none rich people ask about how much money they have. Ivanka Trump makes a comment about how because having famous parents she couldn't show any emotions after she found out about her parents divorce because of the amount of cameras surrounding her house. Vanderbelt's are one of the most richest families they but most of their money to creating of the grand central station. If you want to hear rich kids talk about themselves this movie is for you.

I expected Born Rich to be a slice of high society life, hopefully giving me some (potentially valuable) insight into the mechanics of the world of the very rich. It's not quite that, but I still watched this documentary with interest. Born Rich is basically a short catalog of faces+personalities of rich heirs talking about how they feel about being born into wealth. Most of these guys and gals are charming, fairly smart, and come off as decent. A couple are irritatingly superficial, but not on a grotesque level. Realistically, - and the creator Jaime Johnson (of Johnson & Johnson) strongly implies this in the beginning, - these people have to be relatively open and sincere to agree to participate in this film in the first place. Some of them are probably combining those qualities with the pragmatism of getting some publicity for own ends, but I personally think that digging around in motivation in order to try and measure the degree of someone's "selfishness" or "shrewdness" is, in this case, somewhat pointless, so never mind that.Josiah Hornblower (a Vanderbilt heir) was the most fascinating person to watch, since he seemed to intensely ponder and struggle over the purpose of his own life, and life in general.After you watch this, you'll want to check out an article published at MailOnline in October 2013 that looks at the heroes of the film 10 years later. It gives you more perspective on these people.Director and writer Jaime Johnson says in that article: "I would have liked to have spent more time with each subject in the film, creating a more nuanced portrait of each of their lives." I agree with his assessment in that deeper and more complex portrayals of the film's stars would have improved it.Turns out Jaime Johnson also made the documentary "The One Percent", which might have more of the stuff that I was seeking from this one. Will watch it next. As for Born Rich - it's a solid 7/10, and an interesting gallery of characters.

I got this VHS tape (HBO demo-tape for Emmy consideration, air date: October 27th, 2003) from a yard sale, i don't remember watching it. As I was watching it, I sort of remembered that I have seen it before, I just didn't remember much about it. While I was almost finished watching it, my 19-years-old VCR (made in November of 1995) stopped working! tragically, it doesn't make sense for me to buy a new one just to watch a few remaining VHS tapes that i still have. how ironic is that if this happened to one of those rich people in this show, i am sure that they will go buy a new vcr just to finish watching this tape. good thing, I found this on youtube, so I was able to finish watching it. i didn't know that those kind of people exited until I watched this show. Sure, there are rich people, but i didn't know that there are children who are already super rich, who don't have to worry about money since day one. Overall, this is a good show, but I felt that it was a little superficial. Also, Jamie Johnson didn't spend much time talking about himself. They could have talked a little bit more, and tell us more about their lives, such as if they have personal assistants, do they ever have to spend time cleaning their own rooms, buying groceries, just what they do as rich people everyday. I enjoyed it.

I liked this movie. You have a lot of super-wealthy, early 20's kids pondering the unique position they perceive themselves to be in, and considering questions about their family, and their future, and their place in society. The people in the film think their dilemmas are unique because of the magnitude of their wealth, but the problems of "what should I do with my life?" are really quite universal and have a broader appeal. These kids are essentially normal people, who just happen to find themselves with gobs of inherited wealth. What would you become in such a situation? Having said that, I would argue that you, my reader, *are* in such a situation. If you're a first-world country resident reading this review over an Internet connection, you have more money than approximately 4 billion people. They would love to have the good fortune you take for granted. What you spend in a single trip to the store could feed a whole village of people. You could take your $30,000 in retirement savings right now to Vietnam (a country where 70+ million people live) and get by better than most without working another day in your life. In fact, this movie about the super-rich, is a movie about *you*.So you should pay attention if you find this movie's subject's ruminations offensive or ignorant. For what they lack in perspective, is exactly what we all lack in perspective.