Fast food nation [videorecording] / Fox Searchlight Pictures ; Participant Productions and HanWay Films in association with BBC Films present ; a Recorded Picture Company presentation ; a Jeremy Thomas production ; a Richard Linklater film ; producer, Malcolm McLaren ; written by Eric Schlosser and Richard Linklater ; directed by Richard Linklater.
Based on the book [Fast food nation: the dark side of the all-American meal] by Eric Schlosser. Patricia Arquette (Cindy), Bobby Cannavale (Mike), Paul Dano (Brian), Luis Guzman (Benny), Ethan Hawke (Pete), Ashley Johnson (Amber), Greg Kinnear (Don), Kris Kristofferson (Rudy), Avril Lavigne (April), Esai Morales (Tony), Catalina Sandino Moreno (Sylvia), Lou Taylor Pucci (Paco), Ana Claudia Talancon (Coco), Wilmer Valderrama (Raul), Bruce Willis (Harry). Originally produced as a motion picture in 2006. Special features: Audio commentary by director Richard Linklater and author/screenwriter Eric Schlosser; Manufacturing 'Fast Food Nation' [making of featurette] (56 min.); Photo gallery [slide show]; The meatrix (4 min.); The meatrix II (5 min.); The meatrix II 1/2 (3 min.); The backwards hamburger (3 min.) [4 animated shorts].
Contents:
Fast food -- Coyote -- Marketing issues -- Marketing 101 -- Cody, Colorado -- Customer service -- Wages -- Plant tour -- Banana Republic ... not -- Rumors -- Housekeeping -- Rudy -- Rats -- Big picture -- Recommendations -- Life goes on -- Follow your passion -- Do something -- Mike's girls -- Mickeys is watching you -- Big lies -- Accident on the line -- Student activism -- Favor -- Cattle liberation -- First day on the job -- Kill floor -- Bienvenidos.
Summary:
If it's true that we are what we eat, then how do we even know who we are? Don Anderson is trying to balance his search for the truth with an apparent desire not to do anything that might hurt his career. Raul and Sylvia, having crossed the border illegally, take up dangerous, stomach-turning jobs at the meat-processing plant. Amber is a teenage burger-slinger who wants to both change the world and get out of town. These two desires--to fight the system and to win by its rules--are not necessarily incompatible, though they may seem contradictory. Everyone has something to say, but hard ethical choices are set down by the logic of 21st-century consumer capitalism.
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