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Fast Food
Nation 
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| Starring: |
Greg Kinnear,
Patricia Arquette, Bobby Cannavale, Paul Dano,
Luis Guzmán, Ethan Hawke, Ashley Johnson, Kris
Kristofferson, Avril Lavigne, Esai Morales,
Catalina Sandino Moreno, Lou Taylor Pucci, Ana
Claudia Talancón, Wilmer Valderrama, Bruce
Willis |
| Directed by: |
Richard Linklater |
| Produced by: |
Jeremy Thomas, Malcolm
McLaren, Jeff Skoll, Ricky Strauss, Chris
Salvaterra, Ed Saxon, Peter Watson, Eric
Schlosser, David M. Thompson |
| Written by: |
Richard Linklater, Eric
Schlosser |
| Genre: |
Drama |
| MPAA rating: |
R |
| Runtime: |
116 minutes |
| Release date: |
May 19, 2006 |
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Official website
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Don Henderson (Greg Kinnear),
a marketing executive for a national burger chain must
leave blissful ignorance behind when his boss gives him
an unsavory assignment: Investigate scientific findings
that cow manure is contaminating the meat used in the
company's top-selling hamburger. Don's search takes him
from his comfortable office to a vast feedlot, to the
inner rooms of a slaughterhouse manned by illegal
immigrants who must do all the dirty work. Based on Eric
Schlosser's book.
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| Critics
Reviews |
Average
Grade: |
B- |
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Source |
Brief Review |
Grade* |
Atlanta
Journal-Constitution
Bob Townsend |
"What's most
frustrating about Fast Food Nation is
how much it promises and how little it
delivers."
more... |
C |
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris |
"...the movie
imparts a kind of damning hopelessness that
swells to tragic proportions."
more... |
A |
Chicago
Sun-Times
Teresa Budasi |
"...a whole lot
of disjointedness that is supposed to all
tie together."
more... |
C |
Chicago
Tribune
Michael Phillips |
"...works best
when it's just hanging out with its
far-flung collection of likable, flawed
people living off the fat and the lean of
the land."
more... |
B |
E! Online
Matt Stevens |
"...Nation's
layered narrative is only intermittently
successful..."
more... |
B- |
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum |
"For a change,
the interwoven ensemble approach to
storytelling works even though handled by
someone other than Robert Altman."
more... |
B+ |
filmcritic.com
Chris Cabin |
"...bullies the
American way of eating with harsh reality
and delicate understanding."
more... |
B |
New York
Post
Kyle Smith |
"When you
finish your popcorn, save the empty bucket.
You'll need it."
more... |
D- |
New York
Times
A. O. Scott |
"...Mr.
Linklater and Mr. Schlosser have really
undertaken a much deeper and more
comprehensive critique of contemporary
American life."
more... |
A- |
ReelViews
James Berardinelli |
"...the movie
might have worked better had the ensemble
cast been dumped and the project re-imagined
as a documentary."
more... |
C+ |
Rolling
Stone
Peter Travers |
"...less an
expose of junk-food culture than a human
drama..."
more... |
B |
San
Francisco Chronicle
Ruthe Stein |
"...for all the
filmmaker's good intentions, Fast Food
Nation isn't a particularly good movie."
more... |
C |
Seattle
Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold |
"The film is
structured to make the points of the
book..."
more... |
B- |
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