Fast Food Nation
- Document number
- 1558
- Date
- 2006
- Title
- Fast Food Nation
- Author/publisher
- Richard Linklater, BBC Films
- Availability
- LSI library
- Document type(s)
- Multimedia,
- Keywords
- Sexual exploitation, Harassment, Irregular migration, Forced labour, United States,
- Summary
- This movie, based on the book ‘Fast Food nation, The Dark Side of the All-American Meal’ from Eric Schlosser has a strong lineup of big name actors (including Bruce Willis, Wilmer Valderrama, Catalina Sandino Moreno and Patricia Arquette). 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. Richard Linklater's Fast Food Nation is not a documentary, but a character study of the lives behind the facts and figures. It traces the birth of an everyday, ordinary burger through a chain of riveting, interlocked human stories - from a hopeful, young immigrant couple who cross the border to work in a perilous meat-packing plant, to a teen clerk who dreams of life beyond the counter; to the corporate marketing whiz who is shocked to discover that his latest burger invention - 'The Big One' - is literally full of manure. As the film traverses from pristine barbeque smoke labs to the volatile U.S.-Mexican border, it unveils a provocative portrait of all the yearning, ambition, corruption and hope that lies inside what America is biting into.
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