Documentary filmmaker Abigail Disney uses one of her family’s theme parks as a microcosm to ask bigger questions about the American economy

Last weekend, thousands of Disney’s biggest fans paid hundreds of dollars each to gather in Anaheim’s Convention Center at the D23 Expo and hear executives promote the company’s upcoming products. Simultaneously, a distressing number of workers at the theme park across the street are struggling to make ends meet, while CEO Bob Chapek receives nearly 650 times his median employee’s salary. That disparity — and the danger it represents for America’s economic system — is at the heart of The American Dream and Other Fairy Tales, the devastating new documentary from Emmy award-winning producer-director Abigail Disney.