Other recent films on America’s wealth gap, “Park Avenue,” for instance, hold no punches in the way their efforts paint the wealthy as detached jerks who are buying off politicians to support their needless and greedy habits.

But Reich doesn’t want to make villains out of the wealthy.

“I think that’s wrongheaded and it doesn’t lead to any constructive solutions,” he told me in an interview with a few reporters in New York.

His film aims to show how economic inequality hurts everyone.

“The rich would be better off with a smaller share of a rapidly growing economy,” he told me, “than they (are) now with a large share of an economy that is anemic — that is basically not growing at all, largely because you don’t have many people with much money to be able to sustain the economy and buy enough.”