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Fast Food Nation

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Original title

Fast Food Nation

Year

2006

Running time

115 min.

Country

United States

Director

Richard Linklater

Screenwriter

Richard Linklater, Eric Schlosser. Book: Eric Schlosser

Cast

Music

Friends of Dean Martinez

Cinematography

Lee Daniel

Producer

Co-production United States-United Kingdom;

Recorded Picture Company (RPC), Fox Searchlight, Participant Media, BBC Film, HanWay Films

Genre

Comedy. Drama | Cooking. Independent Film (US). Immigration

Synopsis

Don Henderson (Greg Kinnear)-a marketing executive at Mickey's Fast Food Restaurant chain, home of "The Big One"-has a problem. Contaminated meat is getting into the frozen patties of the company's best-selling burger. To find out why, he'll have to take a journey to the dark side of the All-American meal.Leaving the cushy confines of the company's Southern California boardroom for the immigrant-staffed slaughterhouses, teeming feedlots and cookie cutter strip malls of Middle America, what Don discovers is a "Fast Food Nation" of consumers who haven't realized it is they who are being consumed by an industry with a seemingly endless appetite for fresh meat.

The Recorded Picture Company production FAST FOOD NATION, a character study set in the fast food industry, is based on material from the book of the same name written by Eric Schlosser. Fast Food Nation, published in 2001 and a New York Times bestseller, was an incendiary nonfiction exploration of the industry.

Awards: 2006: Cannes Film Festival: Nominated for Palme d'Or (Best Film)

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Fast Food Nation

2006

Richard Linklater

6.2

(5,953)