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Fast Food Nation
2007
If "Super Size Me" took on the burger, "Fast Food Nation" takes on the whole takeaway food industry! Don Henderson is a corporate marketing whizz at Mickey's Fast Food Restaurant Chain, home of "The Big One". When he discovers that contaminated meat is getting into the frozen patties of the company's best selling burger, .. Read more
| Starring | Kris Kristofferson, Patricia Arquette, Bruce Willis, Ethan Hawke |
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| Director | Richard Linklater |
| Genres | Drama |
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Fast Food Nation
If "Super Size Me" took on the burger, "Fast Food Nation" takes on the whole takeaway food industry!
Don Henderson is a corporate marketing whizz at Mickey's Fast Food Restaurant Chain, home of "The Big One". When he discovers that contaminated meat is getting into the frozen patties of the company's best selling burger, his investigations uncover more than he bargained for.
Directed by Richard Linklater ("Before Sunset", "School Of Rock") and based on Eric Schlosser's best selling expose of America's junk food industry, "Fast Food Nation" features an all-star cast including Greg Kinnear ("Little Miss Sunshine"), Patricia Arquette (True Romance") and Oscar nominee Kris Kristofferson.
| Starring | Kris Kristofferson, Patricia Arquette, Bruce Willis, Ethan Hawke, Juan Carlos Serran, Greg Kinnear, Paul Franklin Dano, Wilmer Valderrama, Avril Lavigne |
|---|---|
| Director | Richard Linklater |
| Studio | PALISADES TARTAN |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 54 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 27 Aug 2007 Production year: 2007 |
| Format | DVD |
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Some targets are as easy to hit as holding a gun to the head of a newborn lamb, and sadly Richard Linklaters uneasy... read more on Time Out
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24 out of 30 people found this review helpful
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Another Linklater Gem
Richard Linklater's adaptation is a fictional dramatisation of the non-fiction novel. Playing out more as a narrative on the fast food industry than a critique, the film stops short of being an anti-capitalist diatribe in favour of a simple presentation of the concerns that society shares about such an industry. Following along similar lines to many of Linklater's other works it mixes his traditional free-flowing conversations with tinges of Maria Full Of Grace and Dazed And Confused. Containing some gruesome images the film's strength lies in the free-flowing conversations and the all too familiar ethical choices that the characters face and it's to Linklater's credit that he places more emphasis on the difficultly of these ethical choices than on the emotional impact they have on the characters. It is simple, there's little exploration of the bigger picture and there has been criticism that the character arcs don't interlink which I don't think matters, because the characters are just as much the meat going into the machine as the beef itself. Harshly underrated by the critics it could have been a three hour multi-layered epic that might have failed, instead it's a tight, empathic little film that's definitely worth a watch.
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13 out of 17 people found this review helpful
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Fast Food Nation
All i can say is that i hated this film. I was desperately hoping that it would get better. There were some terrific performances in this film but it was ruined at the end with the horrendous slaughtering of real cow at the end!
Where was the warning?????????
Where was my right to choose to see an animal be unnecessarily killed all for the gratuity of satisfying a movie audience.
I hated it and i hate richard Linklater for making me see this after i turned off when Jamie Oliver killed a chicken live on channel four.
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- Nadiestar from Ruislip, Middlesex
- Posted 12 Feb 2008 23:31
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In the Best Possible Taste: The Foodie Movie
- 08 Oct 2007
It was in Breakfast of Champions that Kurt Vonnegut imagined life on a planet devoid of all plants and animals save humanoids. These humanoids took pleasure in (to our minds) an exotic, even aberrant form of pornography. It wasn't the sexual act that repelled and transfixed them. It was images of food and eating. For an hour and a half, the movie camera barely strayed from close ups of lips, teeth, and bobbing Adam's apples as a family pigged out over a simulated meal. At the film's climax,... Read more
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