Fast Food Nation
If Morgan Spurlock's "Super Size Me" made the case that fast food is bad for your body, Richard Linklater's "Fast Food Nation," adapted from Eric Schlosser's best-selling expose, shows us how it's bad on so many other levels. Schlosser's book was a wide-ranging journalistic investigation into how the industry has impacted America — from its reliance on illegal labor in the meatpacking plants, to its advertising aimed at children. Linklater cross-cuts between a number of parallel stories that add up to portray the big picture.
Greg Kinnear plays a nice-guy exec at fast-food giant Mickey's, tasked with finding out why tests have discovered fecal matter in their burgers; Catalina Sandrina Moreno is the illegal immigrant whose friends all work at a meat-packing plant; and Bruce Willis arrives in a tough-talking cameo as the industry realist who tells Kinnear, "We all have to eat a little sh*t from time to time."