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FAST FOOD NATION

by Richard Linklater

synopsis

Don Henderson - a corporate executive at Mickey's Fast Food Restaurant chain, home of "The Big One" - has a problem. Contaminated meat is getting into the frozen patties of the company's best-selling burger, and he needs to find out why. Discovering the answer won't be as simple or as clean as he had hoped. Embarking on a journey to the dark side of the All-American meal, he leaves the cushy confines of the company's Southern California boardroom for the immigrant-staffed slaughterhouses, teeming feedlots and cookie cutter strip malls of Middle America. What Don discovers is that this "Fast Food Nation" is a country of consumers ... who haven't realized it is they who have been consumed by an industry with a seemingly endless appetite for bodies, human and otherwise.

international title: Fast food nation
original title: Fast food nation
country: United Kingdom, United States
sales agent: HanWay Films
year: 2006
genre: fiction
directed by: Richard Linklater
film run: 104'
release date: FR 22/11/2006, PL 01/12/2006, GR 14/12/2006, PT 11/01/2007, HU 18/01/2007, DE 22/02/2007, SE 09/03/2007, BE 14/03/2007, NL 22/03/2007, UK 23/03/2007
cast: Greg Kinnear, Kris Kristofferson, Avril Lavigne
cinematography by: Lee Daniel
film editing: Sandra Adair
art director: Bruce Curtis
producer: Malcolm McLaren, Jeremy Thomas, Ann Carli
production: Recorded Picture Company, Participant Productions (USA), BBC Films (UK)
distributor: Tartan Distribution, La Fabrique de Film (FR), Senator (DE), A-Films (Benelux), Scanbox (Scandinavia)

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