While no one ever mistook Chicken McNuggets for health food, Eric Schlosser's 2001 muckraker
Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal opened many eyes to the far-reaching consequences of fast food. Schlosser argues that the fast-food industry is tremendously detrimental not only to national health, but also to the economy, the environment and the basic quality of American life. But rather than pouring his careful research into an equally eye-opening documentary, Schlosser and filmmaker Richard Linklater pooled their resources to make a dramatically spotty fiction film in which a group of very different men and women, all employed by the "Mickey...
Released:
2006
Rated:
R
Length:
106 mins