Queen of Versailles, The

Hailed as the best film on the Great Recession, this deservedly multiple award-winner is an all access pass into the home, business and marriage of time-share magnate, David Siegel, his beauty-queen wife Jackie, their children, maids, nannies and their fluffy white dogs, fleas an’ all.... The couple is triumphantly adamant on building their dream home in Florida, the largest and most expensive private residence in America for the bargain price of $75,000,000 (yes, you read aright, 75 million dollars) and modelled, with little irony, on the French chateau referred to in the film’s title. Funny, outrageous and at times sad, the film documents the Siegel’s as they face financial meltdown, not having saved a cent, and in the wake of the economic crisis the dream of Versailles begins to unravel.