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Fast Food Nation (2006)
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Greg Kinnear, Bruce Willis, Paul Dano, Ethan Hawke, Wilmer Valderrama
DVD Info
Release:
Apr 3, 2008
DVD Features:
- Keep Case
Audio:
- (unspecified) - Spanish
- Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
- Subtitles - English, Spanish, French - Optional
Additional Release Material:
- Audio Commentaries - Richard Linklater - Director; Eric Schlosser - Writer
- Behind the Scenes - "Manufacturing FAST FOOD NATION"
- Bonus Shorts - 1. "The Meatrix"
- 2. "The Meatrix II"
- 3. "The Meatrix II 1/2"
- 4. "The Backwards Hamburger"
Text/Photo Galleries:
- Stills/Photos
Reviews
Engaging, thought-provoking and sharply written, this is an impressively directed drama with superb performances from its talented ensemble cast.
Though it may well make you vow never to eat a burger again, the film never really holds itself together.
Certainly food for thought then, just a shame the characters aren’t as fully-fleshed.
The stories lack shape, and the procession of famous faces detracts from the low-key, realist tone.
Intelligent and radical, this meaty exposé of corporate greed offers plenty to chew on.
This movie has taken a firebrand book and turned it into a whingeing piece of defeatism.
Not as hard-hitting and incisive as it could have been but a relatively thoughtful and thought-provoking film nonetheless.
A gross and engrossing attempt to humanise a hot-button subject, using a star-sprinkled cast to reveal some unpalatable truths.
Rather like a fungus-based meat substitute, this film feels as though it's good for you, but actually there are few lasting benefits.
Engaging, thought-provoking and sharply written, this is an impressively directed drama with superb performances from its talented ensemble cast.
While the original book assumed an adult level of intelligence, the film pitches itself squarely at the sort of American teenager who would be shocked to learn that a fast food chain was anything but a pillar of the local community.
A dramatic movie that's engaging and provocative in a way a documentary couldn't be.
This was never intended to be a conventional movie, but more like a personal industrial film illustrating the process that brings the corpse of a cow to your dinner table.
The large cast is uniformly excellent and the film has been designed to stir the pot ... Unfortunately, audiences don't seem to be responding. Global warming is the hot button issue but our food supply and its contamination is just as important.
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