FRONTLINE | Close to Home | PBS

http://www.pbs.org/frontline/closetohome/ FRONTLINE Producer Ofra Bikel visits her hair salon on the Upper East Side to hear patrons' intimate stories of how the recession is hitting home, even in the unlikeliest of neighborhoods. "Close to Home" airs Tuesday, Oct. 27 at 9PM on PBS (check local listings).

Producer Ofra Bikel chronicles how the middle class is faring in this recession through the stories of the people who she's come to know at the hair salon she's frequented for the past twenty years. The film reveals the struggles of a small business owner to stay afloat, her sister's risk of imminent foreclosure on her Florida home, and the various clients whose lives intersect at this New York City salon—from well-to-do bankers to struggling actors, each with a story to tell about how they're getting by in these turbulent times.

Watch "Close to Home" on air and online beginning Tuesday, October 27 on PBS (check local listings) and at http://www.pbs.org/frontline/closetohome

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[morleigh13]

Why on earth should we care if the rich have to sell their limos? Try going to a barber shop on the south side of Chicago, then we'll get something to care about.

[flagship21]

oh no poor baby she had to sell her porche ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh­hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh­hhhh

[claine1]

I like the hair salon/barber shop interview location. You never see that setting used with the rich. I wonder if it allowed for more comfortable/candid interviews because ppl were more relaxed.

[hellsmond]

do you honestly think that if you shut the trading doors to china that china(or the VN in any of the ignorant things you said in your comment) will not take actions like , forceing their tradingpartners to stop trading with the usa or worse they will start a war which will eventually turn into a world war(yes china got nuclear weapons).next to those things the very computer you just typed this on is partly made IN china(or countries close to it) which makes your comment even more ironic.

[SP567]

The EMOTIONS of losing your home, your job and everything you have is the same, regardless of how much you had or did not have. Losing everything is losing everything.

Not being able to pay your bills or feed your family anymore and watching everything you've worked for and dreamed of go done the drain is a terrible feeling and it has nothing to do with who you were or thought you were. Being thrown out into the streeet with no where to go makes everyone equal. Ease up.

[quornholio]

Hey Upper East Side: Now YOU know how the other half lives, you oblivious snobs!

[JulieRebu07]

exactly what ever they are going throught is nothing compare to the middle and low class

[JulieRebu07]

rich ppl wine so much now they can feel what the low and middle class always have to go throught not being able to have a porche or previledges

[a2zntog]

What exactly makes you think that this is about people having to sell their limos? Or do you know something I dont? Besides, have you seen her other movies?

[DarkPassionPlay09]

"This is the upper east side here. This isn't suppose to happen!" Big whoop. I thought this documentary was about the real Americans that are suffering through the recession. Not a bunch of rich people who are whining about losing their expensive crap. Sorry, I can't sympathize here.

[shfbdfi1273]

She's trying to say that she's unlucky because this happen in her lifetime.

[rickbar123]

rich and poor alike and all of us in the middle-

stop nafta stop free trade

shut the door on china and wal mart