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Fast Food Nation

2006

Richard Linklater

Greg Kinnear, Ethan Hawke, Kris Kristofferson, Patricia Arquette ...

6.2

5,953

Comedy. Drama 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 ... [+]

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"A fictional version [of the book] that is often leadenly acted and scripted, and cravenly attacks only an imaginary burger firm called 'Mickey's' (…) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	James Berardinelli ReelViews	"[The narrative] is not only unfocused and rambling, but presents thinly developed characters (...) The only interesting elements of 'Fast Food Nation' are when it offers insight into the fast food process (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"'Fast Food Nation,' while it does not shy away from making arguments and advancing a clear point of view, is far too rich and complicated to be understood as a simple, high-minded polemic"	POS
United States	Wesley Morris Boston Globe	"[It] has the dramatic flatness and willful lack of personality of some documentaries (...) The movie nonetheless feels like both a work of investigative journalism and an immense human-interest story"	NEU
United States	Cynthia Fuchs Common Sense Media	"[It] doesn't end well, but it does end powerfully (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS

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