Phoenix Film Festival 2009

The Studebaker family starts in a perfect American world, and as the epitome of American culture, they sit down to play a real estate board game (very similar to one we all know and love). Soon, actual economic issues penetrate the game play. Jewelry has to be hocked to buy groceries, rents go through the roof, there's a mortgage crisis, there's a government bail out, and credit cards have 29.97%interest rates! By the end of the game the Studebakers have moved from the 1950 'Leave it to Beaver' life style into the 2008 ghetto. Mom is selling herself to the banker to buy groceries, 16-year-old Sarah has become a heartless Wall St. power broker, little Timmy has become a gang lord, and Dad just can't take it anymore!