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Article: 'Fast Food Nation' fails to satisfy Big-name actors just empty calories in film adaptation of Schlosser book
- Article from:
- The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA
- Article date:
- November 17, 2006
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MOVIE REVIEW
Hold the pickles. Hold the lettuce. And while you're at it, hold
the beef - because if the feces in it doesn't kill you, the
cholesterol will.
Welcome to "Cattle Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious
Nation of Fast Food," or "Fast Food Nation" as it's known outside
Kazakhstan, a film that turns muckraking into muck.
What kind of barbecue smoke did Richard Linklater think he was
blowing up our rump roasts when he thought to convert Eric
Schlosser's nonfiction expose about the evils of the fast-food
industry into a ham-handed piece of fiction that's lost its marbling?
Well, whatever it is, it stinks worse than what's probably in
those hamburgers you love to feed your ...