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Article: Service is slow and leisurely at 'Fast Food Nation'

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November 17, 2006
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Richard Linklater is channeling Robert Altman -- or at least it seems he's trying to channel Altman -- with his meandering, intertwined plot lines about the horrors of the fast-food industry in "Fast Food Nation."

Characters come and go, there's no great, driving momentum. It's as if the director is returning to his intentionally plotless, indie "Slacker" roots, not adapting a best-selling book with some real teeth to it.

Linklater has teamed up with "Fast Food Nation" writer Eric Schlosser to fictionalize Schlosser's 2001 nonfiction book. Stories involve a restaurant chain executive (Greg Kinnear) investigating high fecal levels in the burgers; a high school student (Ashley Johnson) who ...

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