Essays on Fast Food Nation

R 2006 ‧ Drama/Romance ‧ 1h 56m

Don Henderson (Greg Kinnear), a marketing executive for a national burger chain must leave blissful ignorance behind when his boss gives him an unsavory assignment: Investigate scientific findings that cow manure is contaminating the meat used in the company’s top-selling hamburger. Don’s search takes him from his comfortable office to a vast feedlot, to the inner rooms of a slaughterhouse manned by illegal immigrants, who must do all the dirty work.… MORE

Director: Richard Linklater

Adapted from: Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal

Box office: $2.2 million

Produced by: Jeremy Thomas; Malcolm McLaren

Distributed by: Searchlight Pictures, Participant, BBC Films, HanWay Films, Palisades Tartan