
America's Booming Divorce Business
Divorce in America has become a full-fledged industry, and this film tracks the money moving through it. Lawyers, mediators, financial planners, and even party planners now build entire careers around the end of marriages, turning a once-private legal proceeding into a market worth billions of dollars a year. The film also looks at the newer, stranger side of the business: couples staging elaborate divorce ceremonies and rituals meant to mark the split the way a wedding once marked the union, complete with hired officiants and symbolic rites. Interviews with people working inside this economy explain how demand for these services has grown alongside changing attitudes toward separation, and how an event once treated as a private failure has become something people are willing to pay to formalize and even celebrate. The result is a compact look at how an industry adapts when a painful life event turns into steady business.