Fast Food Nation

Name: Fast Food Nation
Genre: Drama
Released: November 17, 2006
Duration: 116 min
Rating: 64
Cast: Catalina Sandino Moreno, Greg Kinnear

2006

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Fox Searchlight Pictures | Release Date: November 17, 2006 | R

Starring: Catalina Sandino Moreno, Greg Kinnear

Summary: Inspired by the incendiary bestseller that exposed the hidden facts behind America's fast food industry comes a powerful drama that takes an eye-opening journey into the dark heart of the All-American meal. (Fox Searchlight)

Director: Richard Linklater

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: R

Runtime: 116 min

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Wesley Morris

Fast Food Nation has the dramatic flatness and willful lack of personality of some documentaries -- or at least how Linklater thinks a documentary should be. The movie nonetheless feels like both a work of investigative journalism and an immense human-interest story, veering into muckraking, horror, teen comedy, and what passes for "Twilight Zone" science fiction. Read full review

Chris Kaltenbach

Fast Food Nation offers no easy answers, but plenty of food for thought. Read full review

Don R. Lewis

Through it all, Fast Food Nation never really preaches to viewers, it just lays ideas out there. In that respect, it's every bit a talky, philosophical Richard Linklater movie. Read full review

Scott Tobias

Less a movie than a political act, Fast Food Nation aims to disseminate its counter-propaganda to the widest possible audience, which is the only plausible reason why the book has been shoehorned into a narrative instead of a documentary. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Ken Fox

Presenting facts in a wrapper of fiction only muddies the waters, and many of the film's subtler points are likely to slip by viewers who haven't first read Schlosser's book. Other salient points are shoehorned into the dialogue, rendering key scenes preachy, heavy-handed and dramatically inert. Read full review

Kirk Honeycutt

Following up on Morgan Spurlock's wildly successful indie film "Super Size Me," critics of fast food were hoping that a one-two punch would further raise consciousness among consumers and purveyors alike. Alas, Fast Food Nation is punchless. Read full review

Kyle Smith

If I wanted to spend $10.75 making myself sick, I'd buy a bottle of cheap tequila. Read full review

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freeridearts

Mar 4, 2021

This is a great film. This is a great film. This is a great film. This is a great film.

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IamheA.

Nov 25, 2006

This film makes "Supersize Me" look like the lightweight it truly is. From the opening sequence it is clear that the fast food health issues visible to most consumers are just the tip of the iceberg lettuce, as the camera shows us cattle herds that threaten the ecology and public health, This film makes "Supersize Me" look like the lightweight it truly is. From the opening sequence it is clear that the fast food health issues visible to most consumers are just the tip of the iceberg lettuce, as the camera shows us cattle herds that threaten the ecology and public health, exploited undocumented workers losing their limbs and sexual autonomy in sped-up, infected slaughterhouses, and cynical corporate officials who find a way to cover it up and make it all pay. Certainly director Linklater owes a great debt to John Sayles' film "Lone Star," as well as to Stephen Frears' "Dirty Pretty Things," inasmuch as he has shown the interweaving of lives at multiple levels of the de facto race, class, nationality and corporate hierarchies, and yet has nonetheless managed to give his characters the depth and respect they deserve instead of representing them as cardboard stereotypes a la the film "Crash." The message of this film is that unaccountable corporate hierarchies must not be entrusted with decisions that affect the conditions of labor, justice and public health for entire communities of people. If you don't like that message then you are drinking the Kool-Aid that is killing the organic, cooperative systems that underlie everything that works in this world.… Expand

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IamheA.

Nov 27, 2006

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pgmark

Dec 16, 2010

Good movie! Good story line and gives you something to think about for sure. Greg K is great again but one surprising performance from none other than Bruce Willis. Here is a guy whom I typically dislike in movies giving a great performance as a sales account jerk. Totally worked for me andGood movie! Good story line and gives you something to think about for sure. Greg K is great again but one surprising performance from none other than Bruce Willis. Here is a guy whom I typically dislike in movies giving a great performance as a sales account jerk. Totally worked for me and very believable.... perfect role for him. It's too bad he doesn't take these smaller type of roles more. Give up the main role action hero Bruce... it doesn't work for you anymore and has been pounded into the ground!!… Expand

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LanceM.

Mar 20, 2007

It would've been better if this were a intelligent, comical satire, but it comes off as vegan propaganda. Plus the characters don't intermingle, and is rather a disjointed concept movie that tries to snub its nose at its own viewers. Too bad, I was expecting better.

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EricY.

Mar 19, 2007

I thought it would never end... How boring. I was entertained for a while, but got tired of the movie. Don't waste your time.

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JasonW.

Nov 19, 2006

Possibly one of the worst movies I have ever seen. It is bad on two levels: the first is that the movie does not deliver its message well, and the second is that its message is bad.

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