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If you're still eating that fast-food burger after watching Super Size Me, you might not feel too hungry after watching Fast Food Nation, a fictionalised feature based on Eric Schlosser's bestselling nonfiction expose. Director Richard Linklater, who cowrote the screenplay with Schlosser, guides a topnotch ensemble cast through a peek behind the veil of how that Big Mac is born. Much of the film focuses on the illegal immigrants who work in the loosely regulated meat-packing industry, and actors including the luminous Catalina Sandino Moreno (Maria Full of Grace), who plays a desperate but outraged labourer. Greg Kinnear also delivers a spot-on performance as a fast-food chain marketing manager, trying frantically to discover the source of stomach-turning contamination in the company's meat. Stories are woven in unexpected ways, and cameos by the likes of Kris Kristofferson, Patricia Arquette, and especially Bruce Willis keep the narrative fresh. The film has a point of view, but thanks to Linklater's deft touch, is never didactic. As Willis's character slyly says, "Most people don't like to be told what's best for them." Agreed, yet Fast Food Nation likely will help the viewer be more conscious of what's on the end of that fork. --A.T. Hurley
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If Super Size Me took on the burger, Fast Food Nation takes on the whole takeaway food industry! Don Henderson is a corporate marketing whiz at Mickey s Fast Food Restaurant chain, home of The Big One . When he discovers that contaminated meat is getting into the frozen patties of the company s best-selling burger, his investigations uncover more than he bargained for. Directed by Richard Linklater (Before Sunset, School of Rock) and based on Eric Schlosser s best-selling expose of America s junk food industry, Fast Food Nation features an-star cast including Greg Kinnear (Little Miss Sunshine), multi-million selling MTV Award winner Avril Lavigne, Ethan Hawke (Before Sunset), Patricia Arquette (True Romance), Oscar® nominee Kris Kristofferson and Bruce Willis. Special Features: - Tartan Exclusive Interviews with Eric Schlosser, Richard Linklater, Ashley Johnson and Wilmer Valderrama - Behind the Scenes - Original Theatrical Trailer
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
This movie starts off really well, with Greg Kinnear portraying a fast food exec investigating reports of cow faeces present in his company's hamburgers. However, this plotline ends abruptly and we're left with a bunch of teenagers cutting through a fence in the middle of the night to try to free some cows?! Then the movie fizzles out like a poorly-lit BBQ with the Mexican girl giving it up to her aggressive boss across the driver's side of his truck in a car park?!
The scene with Ethan Hawke and his mind-numbing diatribe made me want to vomit more than the scenes of cow-slaughter did. Thank God for fast-forward.
My advice, don't bother with this stupid movie. Go watch Super Size Me by Morgan Spurlock if you want to see a more damning indictment of the fast food industry.
The scene with Ethan Hawke and his mind-numbing diatribe made me want to vomit more than the scenes of cow-slaughter did. Thank God for fast-forward.
My advice, don't bother with this stupid movie. Go watch Super Size Me by Morgan Spurlock if you want to see a more damning indictment of the fast food industry.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
I got round to reading the book after just about everyone seemed to be reading it a couple of years ago and though it was brilliant, it was hard to get through. The film is a far better snapshot of just what's wrong with the fast food industry. The best thing is that although it's got a real serious side to it, it's very funny in places and there's a wicked cameo from Bruce Willis!!! The rest of the cast are all pretty impressive too. LOVED it!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Fast Food Nation revolves around three individuals associated with Mickey's, a fictitious burger chain riding high on the success of "The Big One" which is fast becoming one of the country's best selling burgers.
At the top of the business is Don, the marketing director for Mickey's who is asked by to company CEO to visit its main supplier of burgers to check out its production processes, as some independent research had discovered a significant presence of faecal matter in the meat it supplies. He travels to the fictitious town of Cody, Colorado to a large combined slaughterhouse and meat packing plant where he uncovers a ruthless business which forces him to re-examine his own business morals.
At the central point of the business is Amber a teenage part-time employee in a branch of Mickey's in Cody. Despite being seen as potential management material Amber is encouraged by her uncle to find more to life and becomes involved in a backlash protest at the business practices of her employer.
At the bottom of the business chain is Sylvia, an immigrant from Mexico who illegally crosses the border with her husband and sister to find work in the U.S. When her husband and sister find work in the meat packing plant that supplies Mickey's it reveals a ruthless company that treats its employees little better than the meat it processes.
While the film is a candid look at a section of the fast food business at no time does it ever really preach right from wrong, it simply tells a fictitious story of the journey the meat in a burger took to end up being served in a fast food restaurant, and the lives that were affected along the way.
The direction from Richard Linklater is simple and to the point and the quality of acting is universally good and the characters within the film have real depth. Overall, this is a well crafted and absorbing film which although conveying a message doesn't overly moralise, but at the same time doesn't shy away from the reality of what it takes to produce a cheap burger.
Be warned though, the second to last chapter on the DVD in the film includes a pretty horrific scene from the meat processing plants "kill floor", so even if your remotely squeamish you may want to skip forward a chapter.
At the top of the business is Don, the marketing director for Mickey's who is asked by to company CEO to visit its main supplier of burgers to check out its production processes, as some independent research had discovered a significant presence of faecal matter in the meat it supplies. He travels to the fictitious town of Cody, Colorado to a large combined slaughterhouse and meat packing plant where he uncovers a ruthless business which forces him to re-examine his own business morals.
At the central point of the business is Amber a teenage part-time employee in a branch of Mickey's in Cody. Despite being seen as potential management material Amber is encouraged by her uncle to find more to life and becomes involved in a backlash protest at the business practices of her employer.
At the bottom of the business chain is Sylvia, an immigrant from Mexico who illegally crosses the border with her husband and sister to find work in the U.S. When her husband and sister find work in the meat packing plant that supplies Mickey's it reveals a ruthless company that treats its employees little better than the meat it processes.
While the film is a candid look at a section of the fast food business at no time does it ever really preach right from wrong, it simply tells a fictitious story of the journey the meat in a burger took to end up being served in a fast food restaurant, and the lives that were affected along the way.
The direction from Richard Linklater is simple and to the point and the quality of acting is universally good and the characters within the film have real depth. Overall, this is a well crafted and absorbing film which although conveying a message doesn't overly moralise, but at the same time doesn't shy away from the reality of what it takes to produce a cheap burger.
Be warned though, the second to last chapter on the DVD in the film includes a pretty horrific scene from the meat processing plants "kill floor", so even if your remotely squeamish you may want to skip forward a chapter.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Needs to be watched by all burger eaters
This is a film which reminded me (if I actually needed to) why I became vegetarian over 25 years ago. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Agnetha
Fast Food Nation
I had this product as a gift for Christmas and watched it practically straight away once I had recieved it. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Angie
Fast Food Nation
From the tag line on the box, I imagined this DVD to be a hard hitting documentary in the line of "Super Size Me" or "Food, Inc" but I was way off the mark! Read more
Published on 11 April 2010 by John M. Violet
The BOOK was brilliant
Having read the brilliant book by Eric Schlosser, I was REALLY looking forward to seeing it myself & showing it my teenage children too.
I was deeply disappointed. Read more
I was deeply disappointed. Read more
Published on 14 Mar 2010 by James ¡å
They should've done a documentary instead
The film wasn't as good as what i initially thought it would be.
Rent it, dont buy it - you'll regret it if you do.
Rent it, dont buy it - you'll regret it if you do.
Published on 2 Sep 2008 by Brendan T. Hole
it doesn't work
Apparently this film is based on a work of non-fiction, which is perhaps why it doesn't work as fiction. Read more
Published on 18 Jun 2008 by the gooch
Not what I was expecting....
I expected a documentary along the lines of Fahrenheit 9/11, with interviews with McDonalds/Burger King/etc staff but instead it involves a fictional burger chain and tells the... Read more
Published on 10 Sep 2007 by NonShinyGoose
the view according to www.georgevader.co.uk
'Fast Food Nation' is based on the 2001 best selling book book of the same name and and centres on a fictional fast food chain 'Mickeys' . Read more
Published on 31 Aug 2007 by R. J. Williams
Great movie
Fast Food Nation is a must-see: it's funny, it's got a great cast (Bruce Willis, Greg Kinnear, Patricia Arquette... Read more
Published on 22 Aug 2007 by CathMac69
Burger off!
Without wishing to sound like a veggie bore, I do highly recommend this film to anyone in any doubt as to whether the term 'junk food' is anything better than just that, junk. Read more
Published on 20 Aug 2007 by Kas
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