FAST FOOD NATION (2006)

Cast

Plot

Inspired by the incendiary bestseller, which exposed the hidden facts behind America's fast food industry, Linklater's film traces the birth of an everyday, ordinary burger through a chain of interlocked human stories; a hopeful young immigrant couple, who cross the border to work in a perilous meat-packing plant, a teen clerk, who dreams of life beyond the counter, and a corporate marketing whiz, who is shocked to discover that his latest burger invention, "The Big One", is literally full of sh*t. As the film traverses from pristine barbeque smoke labs to the volatile US/Mexican border, it unveils a provocative portrait of all the yearning, ambition, corruption and hope that lies inside what should just be a very occasional guilty pleasure between breakfast and dinner. A thought provoking dish, but the book is far more substantial.