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Richard Linklater,
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: 20th Century Fox
: Comedies, Drama, Black Comedy, Political Satire, Politics and Social Issues
: 114 min.
: English, Spanish
: English, Spanish, French
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Inspired by author Eric Schlosser's New York Times best-seller of the same name, director Richard Linklater's ensemble drama examines the health issues and social consequences of America's love affair with fast food and features an all-star cast that includes Greg Kinnear, Ethan Hawke, Kris Kristofferson, Patricia Arquette, and Luis Guzman. Mickey's is the most popular fast-food chain in America, and The Big One is the top-selling burger that put them on the map. When the higher-ups at Mickey's corporate offices learn that the frozen meat patties used to make the wildly popular burger have somehow been tainted with contaminated meat, they send marketing executive Don Henderson (Kinnear) on an urgent mission to ensure quality control and find out precisely how their product became compromised. It's a long way from the Southern California boardroom to the immigrant slaughterhouses, though, and the further Henderson works his way through the bustling feedlots and toward the ubiquitous restaurant sites that have become a staple of modern culture, the more he begins to realize just how dangerous convenience can become when it leads to blissfully ignorant complacency. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
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| Should be better even for a B movie
by DFeinberg
June 2, 2008 - 9:22 AM PDT
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0 out of 3 members found this review helpful
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| Some surprise star power and co-writing by the author are not enough for this dramatization Slosser's revealing book. The slaughter house scenes may get you off burgers for at least a while, and in the end that may be the best one could hope for. |
| where's the beef?
by cammelltoe
May 18, 2007 - 10:15 PM PDT
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2 out of 2 members found this review helpful
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| this movie seems to struggle with an identity problem...is it trying to entertain you, enlighten you, gross you out? whatever it's after, the effect is mostly somewhat flat, both dramatically and visually. so it's a good thing there are plenty of other aspects to savor, like little character defining moments that feel genuine (greg kinnear's executive watching porn while putting his laundry away)and the devastating "kill room" scene that serves to illustrate the film's guiding metaphor and is a telling refrence to other cinema slaughterhouse greats, like franju's "blood of the beasts" and fassbinder's "in a year of 13 moons." as with most linklater movies, "Fast Food Nation" flawed but still well worth your time, especially when put in comparison to what his fellow '90s indie compatriots (steven soderburgh, anyone?) have been churning out. |
| make sure you read the book
by WZoller
April 23, 2007 - 12:50 PM PDT
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6 out of 8 members found this review helpful
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| I pictured this well written book being made into a documentary. Instead this movie is hard to decipher. Too many subplots going on at the same time that actually take away from the main point of the book--that big corporations are putting the small farmers out of business. Morgan Spurlock does a better job of interviewing the author about his beliefs in the special features of his Super Size Me DVD than is presented here in this movie. The actors here actually detract from the message. Too bad! |
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