A Place at the Table

Name: A Place at the Table
Genre: Documentary
Released: March 1, 2013
Duration: 84 min
Rating: 68
Cast: Jeff Bridges, Ken Cook, Mariana Chilton, Raj Patel, Tom Colicchio

2013

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Magnolia Pictures | Release Date: March 1, 2013 | PG

Starring: Jeff Bridges, Ken Cook, Mariana Chilton, Raj Patel, Tom Colicchio

Summary: A Place at the Table looks at the economic and cultural impact of hunger in America and at possible solutions to a problem plaguing 50 million people in the U.S, one in four of which are children.

Director: Kristi Jacobson and Lori Silverbush

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: PG

Runtime: 84 min

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Joe Neumaier

Feb 28, 2013

As important and eye-opening a documentary as you’ll see this year, A Place at the Table makes it impossible to think of hunger as merely another symptom of a shredded social safety net. Read full review

Michael O'Sullivan

Feb 28, 2013

The problem, as “Table” shows, isn’t that the next meal never comes. It’s that when it arrives, too often it is filled with empty calories. Read full review

Peter Rainer

Mar 1, 2013

One thing is clear from A Place at the Table: You cannot answer the question “Why are people hungry?,” without also asking “Why are people poor?” Read full review

Tomas Hachard

Feb 23, 2013

More difficult to convey are the web of moral and political issues that surround the hunger crisis, and A Place at the Table proves its worth most by how it treats this wider set of problems. Read full review

Joe Morgenstern

Feb 28, 2013

In addition to the dismaying facts and figures is a fuller sense of what hunger can look like, and feel like, among the millions of Americans classified as "food-insecure" — those who may not know, for themselves or their children, where the next meal will come from. Read full review

John Anderson

Feb 22, 2013

A useful, engaging and enraging movie that will enlist supporters for its cause. Read full review

Mark Feeney

Feb 28, 2013

As morally engaged as the movie is, it’s also argumentatively slack. Precisely because it’s so easy to agree that hunger is bad, it’s hard to agree what to do. Read full review

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