Money On Film: Materialists
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🗓️ 24 March 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to a very special Money On Film miniseries!
Over three episodes, Slate Money’s Felix Salmon and Slate culture writer Nadira Goffe revisit three films at the intersection of culture and finance. On this episode, Felix and Nadira discuss dating and money in Celine Song’s 2025 romantic comedy Materialists, which centers on a love triangle between a millionaire matchmaker (Dakota Johnson), a hunky financier (Pedro Pascal), and an old flame and out-of-work actor (Chris Evans). While not particularly romantic or comedic, the film raises questions about the role money plays in modern dating, how we select partners based on financial viability, and whether romance itself might be a bit overrated.
Next time on Money On Film: Spirited Away. See you then!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello! |
| 0:06.0 | Welcome to Money on Film. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm Felix Hammond of Bloomberg. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm here with Naderigoff. |
| 0:14.0 | I'm a culture writer at sleep. |
| 0:15.0 | Hi. |
| 0:16.0 | And we have already talked about one of my favorite movies, which is Margincull. |
| 0:22.4 | This is a whole series where we talk about the sort of intersection of money and business |
| 0:26.4 | and finance and that kind of stuff with film. |
| 0:30.3 | And so next time we're going to talk about Spirited Away, which is an amazing movie |
| 0:36.0 | and has all manner of economic |
| 0:37.6 | lessons to it. But this time, this time when people think about money, the first thing they |
| 0:43.5 | think about is what's in my bank account and what does that mean for my conception of myself? |
| 0:50.9 | And so we are going to watch a terrible movie. Yeah, it's not the best movie ever made. |
| 0:57.3 | I can certainly say that. It's not the worst movie ever made. We also have a film, if you go back |
| 1:03.0 | into the Slate Money Archives. We have a podcast where Taffy brought us at Acna tried to make me |
| 1:08.4 | watch Made in Manhattan. and that is a genuinely terrible |
| 1:11.4 | movie. Not too much on J-Lo, but it could have used some work. But even if we're talking about, |
| 1:17.5 | like, the star redeems the film, which she doesn't in that movie, Pedro Pascal, what is |
| 1:24.6 | better at that than J-Lo is? Well, yeah. |
| 1:28.1 | Well, I have some criticisms of what the movie does to my dearly beloved Pedro Pascal. |
| 1:33.3 | Making him six feet tall. |
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