After investing so much effort in making a movie this intense, what else is the Hollywood power couple doing to help homelessness? Do they let people into their home, build homes for them?
shareA couple lived outside their home, it's possible they may have supported them too other wise it's awkward to just have a random homeless couple living outside your home. This film humanizes the situation of homelessness for audiences.
sharePaul Bettany would say the occasional word to them, but didn't support them. They disappeared during Hurricane Sandy.
They have publicly supported http://www.coalitionforthehomeless.org. I know some celebrities like to make a big show of all their good works, but given Connelly's general aversion to publicity other than that she is obligated to do for her movies she is not likely to broadcast her charitable giving.
Are you seriously expecting someone (especially anyone with small children) to let random strangers into their home to prove how much they are doing for the homeless? A stunt like that would do very little for such a massive problem and would mostly serve just to garner attention for said celeb, not provide long term meaningful change for anyone. Support via monetary gifts or volunteering to organizations with the knowledge and infrastructure to tackle these issues is probably the best course of action for anyone looking to "do something for the homeless".
Hi Artaxias, there are the big moves and the small personal moves. I have let "random strangers" into my home, with child, not as a stunt, but because that person needed help right then, not later, not some other time. I could easily see that person needed food and a place to sleep for the night, and weren't out to hurt or steal from me. They're not random strangers, they are just people, and like anyone else you can get to know someone and quickly determine if they are out to harm you or not.
Also, I wasn't suggesting that Paul and Jennifer aren't doing anything. I was asking WHAT they are doing, so thanks for the link. It's a unique thing for both husband AND wife to make a film together on such an intense subject, which I can't imagine them doing to such a level and not doing something significant to end homelessness.
Jennifer Connelly is reportedly worth $32 million. Paul Bettany is worth $5 million. I would think it would be hard to reconcile making this kind of film, intimately being aware of the issue, and going to sleep at night in some multimillion home with empty rooms and plenty of vacant space in the home every night. Many celebrities have homes in multiple cities that are empty for months at a time - as highlighted in the film. Even unknown successful people in cities everywhere live in McMansions with ridiculous numbers of rooms and bathrooms sitting vacant and unused EVERY night, and yet somehow we have a homelessness problem.
To me the homelessness problem is exactly like the hunger problem in that it's clear there are enough food and shelter to solve these problems overnight, but somehow we as people just don't do it.