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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 0024543418689
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 06, 2007
Running Time: 114 minutes
Sales Rank: 3498
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: November 17, 2006
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Inspired by the incendiary New York Times bestseller that exposed the hidden facts behind America's fast food industry Fast Food Nation combines an all-star ensemble cast lead by Greg Kinnear Wilmer Valderrama and Avril Lavigne with riveting interlocked human stories to serve up 'a firecracker of a movie that jumps off the screen' (Rolling Stone). When a marketing executive (Kinnear) for the Mickey's burger chain is told there's a nasty secret ingredient in his latest culinary creation 'The Big One' he heads for the ranches and slaughterhouses of Colorado to investigate...but discovers the truth a bit difficult to swallow.Episodes-Bonus Features:Widescreen FeatureCommentary with Director Richard Linklater and Writer Eric SchlosserManufacturing Fast Food Nation FeaturetteThe Meatrix Flash Animation ShortThe Meatrix II Flash Animation ShortThe Meatrix II 1/2 Flash Animation ShortThe Backwards Hamburger Flash Animation ShortPhoto GallerySystem Requirements:Running Time: 113 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: R UPC: 024543418689 Manufacturer No: 2241868
Amazon.com:
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 fictionalized 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 laborer. 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
Extras from Fast Food Nation 
Fast Food Nation Arcade-Style Game |
Beyond Fast Food Nation 
Super Size Me | 
Fast Food Nation (Paperback) | 
Fast Food Nation: Music from and Inspired by the Motion Picture |
Stills from Fast Food Nation
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Informative If A Little Slow Moving
Fast Food Nation I would rate as a good not great movie. It exposes the meat packing and food services industry as not all that sanitary and certainly not compassionate. The groups of teenagers, illegal immigrants, and phony and even unsavory corporate suits show the viewer that the all mighty dollar is king and many workers are just pawns in their universe.
There are some slow draggy moments in the film especially the border runs to pick up the illegal aliens. Nonetheless, I believe ... Read More
Rating:  - A disconnected effort brings down the message
Linklater produces a movie that leaves you wondering how three basic story lines were even put together in the first place. The message of the fast food companies putting their profits as their highest priority gets muddy in the story lines leaving you feeling disconnected from this powerful message. A disenchanted businessman, illegal labor, and teenage angst fail to bring the powerful message home to the viewer.
All story lines were good in their own right, and honestly could have been ... Read More
Rating:  - What Were They Thinking?
As many others have already commented, this is nothing like the book even though they share the same title. The writers even stated in the commentary that the they decided to "set the book aside". Having said that I will restrict my comments to the merits of the movie alone.
This disjointed, rambling, unfocused movie tries to intertwine several stories into one:
* A successful marketing executive (Greg Kinnear) for a large fast food chain (the not too cleverly named "Mickey's") ... Read More
Rating: - GROSS
Dont watch this is you have a weak stomach. Sick overkill with no real ending. Should have just made a docu. I don't know why at the end the wife went back to the meat plant she despised? I thought illegal immigrants all got free healthcare or at least their anchor babies do?
Rating:  - fine exposé---even if the company in the film is fictional
Fast Food Nation is an excellent film about the very real and highly disturbing flaws that exist in a meat packing plant that provides the beef for Mickey's, a fictional fast food chain that doesn't exactly have its act together. Not only do we see how American lives are affected by this mess, we also see how desperate and sometimes frustrated, angry young people and illegal immigrants are drawn into this situation. The movie moves along at a good pace and the acting is terrific. The casting is excellent and ... Read More
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