Storyline
Inspired by author Eric Schlosser's New York Times best-seller of the same name, director Richard Linklater's ensemble drama examines the health issues and social consequences of America's love affair with fast food and features an all-star cast that includes Greg Kinnear, Ethan Hawke, Kris Kristofferson, Patricia Arquette, and Luis Guzman.
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Cast
Aaron Himelstein, Bruce Willis, Paul Dano, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Bobby Cannavale, Kris Kristofferson, Ashley Johnson, Luis Guzmán, Ethan Hawke, Greg Kinnear, Mitch Baker, Patricia Arquette, Ana Claudia Talancón, Avril Lavigne, Wilmer Valderrama, Juan Carlos Serrán, Armando Hernández, Helen Merino, Raquel Gavia, Hugo Perez, Esai Morales, Ellar Coltrane, Glen Powell
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Reviews
91
Viewers expecting a blistering attack on the fast-food business, or an Altmanesque panorama, will be disappointed, but it's a sensitive and humane piece of work.
90
L.A. Weekly
Like two of the year's other standout American films, Kelly Reichardt's "Old Joy" and Ryan Fleck's "Half Nelson," it's a movie of ideas in which the ideas flow effortlessly out of the material instead of being plastered on top with a heavy cement roller (as in "Crash," "Babel" and "Little Children").
83
Entertainment Weekly
Naturally, a subject this right-on draws a right-on cast. Kris Kristofferson, Avril Lavigne, and Ethan Hawke pitch in.
80
It's a mirror and a portrait, and a movie as necessary and nourishing as your next meal.
75
Rolling Stone
It's less an expose of junk-food culture than a human drama, sprinkled with sly, provoking wit, about how that culture defines how we live.
