Review of Freakonomics (2010) by Jose Luis P — 17 Dec 2011

I haven't read the book, but as a social scientist, I found this application of economics to human behavior (that the discipline doesn't typically analyze) fairly interesting (but also vulnerable to charges that the authors stretched the data too far).

The film is composed of three shorter films (directed by some famous documentarians, such as Spurlock) that presumably replicate chapters from teh book, as well as snips of interviews with Levitt and Dubner.

Each of the films contains a bit more padding than they probably need (presumably to get this to feature length) but overall the ideas would make good water cooler fare.