Fast Food Nation (2006)

Recommended

USA/UK

Feature Film

Director: Richard Linklater

Writers: Richard Linklater, Eric Schlosser

Cinematographer: Lee Daniel

Composers: Friends of Dean Martinez

Cast: Greg Kinnear, Ashley Johnson, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Wilmer Valderrama, Ana Claudia Talancón, Bobby Cannavale, Luis Guzmán, Patricia Arquette, Kris Kristofferson, Bruce Willis, Ethan Hawke, Aaron Himelstein

Using the title and a few ideas from Eric Schlosser’s non-fiction book, Linklater’s multi-stranded, fictionalised effort – employing the fast food industry as the perfect metaphor for rampant, pungent, unchecked capitalism; detailing the way that society exploits the poor, the environment, and the animal kingdom in the search of profit – is a loosely drawn, beautifully crafted, painfully moving, and deeply human work. Iain.Stott