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Reich teaches his final "Wealth and Poverty" class to 1,000 students at UC Berkeley, ending a 40-year career that reached 40,000 students. (NR, 71 min.)
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The Last Class is a nuanced and deeply personal portrait of master educator Robert Reich teaching his final course and reflecting on a period of immense transformation, personally and globally. It is a love letter to education. The former Secretary of Labor might be famous for his public service, best-selling books, and viral social media posts, but he always considered teaching his true calling. Now, after over 40 years and an extraordinary 40,000 students, Reich is preparing for his last class.
Over the course of the film, Reich confronts the impending finality, and his own aging, with increasing candor, introspection, and, ultimately, emotion. He displays a rawness of feeling he has never shared publicly before. Drawing on his lifetime in politics, he uses his class, “Wealth and Poverty,” to offer us all a deeper look at why inequalities of income and wealth have widened significantly since the late 1970s, and why this poses dangerous risks to our society.
One thousand students fill the biggest lecture hall on the UC Berkeley campus, the last class to receive Reich’s wisdom and exhortations not to accept that the world has to stay the way it is. His belief in the next generation’s ability to take on the fight is inspiring. [Abramorama]
Starring: Robert Reich
Director: Elliot Kirschner
Genre: Documentary
"Heartfelt, thought-provoking and honest."
— Avi Offer, NYC Movie Guru
"The Last Class is, in the end, a pleasant and heartfelt tribute. It is a warm and often moving documentary that is impossible to dislike."
— Andy Punter, InSession Film
"While this film details Reich’s final moments in a classroom, there is no question that Robert Reich will remain an educator for many through the legacy he has left behind."
— Alise Chaffins, Loud and Clear Reviews
"Throughout The Last Class, Robert Reich demonstrates what American education looks like at its best, calling into question why there is so much hand-wringing over political indoctrination on college campuses"
— James Kendrick, Q Network Film Desk
