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Fast food nation

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.

2006

1 DVD (114 min.) : sd., col.

Widescreen ed.

Based on the book [Fast food nation: the dark side of the all-American meal] by Eric Schlosser.

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].

Marketing executives -- United States -- Drama.

Fast food restaurants -- United States -- Drama.

Slaughtering and slaughter-houses -- Colorado -- Drama.

Emigration and immigration -- Drama.

Immigrants -- Drama.

Mexicans -- Drama.

Colorado -- Drama.

Thomas, Jeremy.

Hawke, Ethan, 1970-

McLaren, Malcolm, 1946-

Kinnear, Greg, 1963-

Arquette, Patricia, 1968-

Talancón, Ana Claudia.

Cannavale, Bobby.

Dano, Paul, 1984-

Guzmán, Luis, 1957-

Linklater, Richard, 1960-

Sandino Moreno, Catalina, 1981-

Valderrama, Wilmer, 1980-

Johnson, Ashley, 1983-

Schlosser, Eric. Fast food nation.

BBC Films.

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.

Fox Searchlight Pictures.

Recorded Picture Company.

HanWay (Firm)

Participant Productions.

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.

024543418689

9786310887579

Beverly Hills, CA : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, c2006.

Library	Call Number	Type	Item Barcode	Status
Institutional Services Schools	DVD 791.43 FAS	DVD	30706000205415	Attendance Centre Audio-visual