Less music-stuffed but more conceptually ambitious than the average music doc, Ron Howard's team up with Jay Z, "Made In America," films a two-day music festival curated by the rapper and works to turn it into a youth-centered assessment of the health of the American Dream. Over a dozen artists appear, most both on- and off-stage, a diverse crew that both emphasizes the eclectic musical tastes of today's youth and bolsters Jay Z's talk of increasing pluralism American society. Though the lack of focus on a single star may limit its marketability (many of the performances are good, but this is no Woodstock), the doc could work in special-event bookings and would play well on cable.
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