“Birthright” Goes Horrifyingly Wrong in All the Right Ways | ForReel

There is, it is fair to say, often generational divides.  One that we are living through today is between millennials (who are now in their 30s and 40s) and boomers (who are now mostly retired).  Boomers grew up in a world that had ample opportunity, and a more fair distribution of wealth, whereas millennials have grown up in a world where they were told that if they achieved certain goals they should expect certain outcomes, and those outcomes often did not materialize. Wages are stagnant, cost of living is up, and wealth inequality is greater than it has been in living memory. 

This is obviously a generalization (though not an unfair one), but this understanding of generational inequity creates a good setup for a dark comedy; a down on his luck millennial and his pregnant wife unceremoniously move in with his retired and well-off boomer parents, and the disparity between their two positions in life bring rise to conflict.  This is the premise for Birthright.

Cory (Travis Jeffrey) and Jasmine (Maria Angelico) have been evicted from their rental property.  Pregnant and victims of a downturned economy, they head to Cory’s parents home to stay while they look for a new place to live.  His parents, Richard (Michael Hurst) and Lyn (Linda Cropper) are stereotypical boomer parents: older, living in a large house, and reasonably wealthy.  Richard worked hard all his life, and now they are enjoying the fruits of that labour, and don’t understand why Cory and Jasmine haven’t been able to buy a home and once again need financial help and support.

At first it seems like this would be a vehicle for pretty standard family drama, but Birthright goes further with it than most would expect.

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