Working on a small budget but with an amazing cast including Bobby Cannavale, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Greg Kinnear, Patricia Arquette, Ethan Hawke and, er, Avril Lavigne, Fast Food Nation is impressively thorough in showing the cause/effect ripples through every part of the industry. The ending initially feels abrupt, and the fates of the characters unresolved. about searchlight. Eric Schlosser With disgusting images of the kill floor in a slaughterhouse and charges that such places are exploiting illegal labor markets, this argument is strong, and I hope that it finds a receptive audience. Inspired by author Eric Schlosser's New York Times best-seller of the same name, director Richard Linklater's ensemble drama examines the health issues and social consequences of America's love affair with fast food and features an all-star cast that includes Greg Kinnear, Ethan Hawke, Kris Kristofferson, Patricia Arquette, and Luis Guzman. View production, box office, & company info. Can't say I was ever able to really get very invested in any particular storylines either, the always great Greg Kinnear had probably the most interesting one and yet his feels almost mostly non-existent through the last half. Contaminated meat is getting into the frozen patties of the company's best-selling burger. |, September 24, 2010 We want to hear what you have to say but need to verify your email. This is a list of movies based on books, short stories, novels, novellas, poems, etc. The stories lack shape, and the procession of famous faces detracts from the low-key, realist tone. I want to see the whole movie, not trailers. By that, I mean both that this film is slow and that this take on the subject of criticizing fast food is a little heavier than "Super Size Me", so to speak (Ha-ha, obesity joke). |, November 7, 2012 Anonymous. The meat industry? Directed by Richard Linklater. A dramatised examination of the health issues and social consequences of America's love affair with fast food. 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. I think I always knew that at one point in his career Linklater decided to make his version of Traffic for the fast food industry but I never sought it out because, well that's a stupid fucking idea. He's the inventor of their bestselling hamburger, the Big One. Thirty years after they served together in Vietnam, a former Navy Corpsman Larry "Doc" Shepherd re-unites with his old buddies, former Marines Sal Nealon and Reverend Richard Mueller, to bury his son, a young Marine killed in the Iraq War. Sidney Poitier’s 7 Most Memorable Performances, All Harry Potter Movies Ranked Worst to Best by Tomatometer. |, May 4, 2007 AKA: Coyote, Geração Fast Food. Fast Food Nation (2006) Plot. Read Less. Additionally, plot elements like Brian's planned robbery and Don's further investigation are inexplicably dropped, leaving parts of the film unfinished. I'd say that Richard Linklater is quite the diverse filmmaker, but he just can't seem to get out of Texas, or at least won't allow Ethan Hawke to do so, which is good, I reckon, because as annoyingly liberal as Austin can be, it's better than being stuck in bad parts of Los Angeles. Style is solid in this drama of limited substance, and when Linklater, as director, does indeed influence substance with style, in addition to controlled moments in generally questionable pacing, the film bites as genuinely intriguing, both thematically, and dramatically. The film is too sprawling and not focused enough. prestige movies that weren't actually prestige movies, maybe?

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