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‘All About the Money’ Premieres at Sundance to Uneven Notices on Heir-Funded Radicalism

The film tracks James “Fergie” Cox Chambers Jr. from a Massachusetts commune to a Tunisian football club.

Overview

  • Directed by Sinéad O’Shea, the documentary profiles an heir to the Cox fortune who redirects personal wealth into anti-capitalist projects.
  • Its strongest passages focus on the Berkshire Communists, a leftist community living on Chambers’ Massachusetts property with housing and food supplied by him.
  • Reviewers say the film grows disjointed as it follows Chambers’ rapid reinventions, citing abrupt international shifts and missing outside perspectives.
  • The narrative extends to Tunisia, where Chambers converts to Islam and buys the struggling Club Africain, underscoring his volatility and influence.
  • O’Shea discloses that Chambers tried to buy the film to stop its release, while the documentary only suggests, without substantiation, a role in Elbit Systems vandalism.