nepo baby
15 titles
Films about the children of the rich and powerful: heirs, princes and the sons of oligarchs. Some were born into the money and some marry into it, and the films follow what the fortune does to each of them.
Pu-Yi is raised in the Forbidden City in The Last Emperor, given every luxury and kept away from the political world outside, until the revolution takes all of it. Charles Foster Kane comes into money as a boy in Citizen Kane, taken from his mother and made the ward of a rich industrialist, and spends the rest of his life reacting to it.
Marrying in is its own danger. Anora, a young stripper from Brooklyn, gets her Cinderella story in Anora when she impulsively marries the son of an oligarch, and his parents set out for New York to have the marriage annulled. In Ready or Not, Grace has just married into a wealthy dynasty whose tradition requires the bride to survive her wedding night while the family hunts her. The money usually wins.
