September 04 2006
Trailer Alert: Fast Food Nation
posted by Steven Shaw at 4:19 pm
Directed by Richard Linklater (Slacker, A Scanner Darkly – and okay – the dreadful School of Rock), Fast Food Nation hits NZ screens on October 26.
A fictionalised adaptation of the book of the same name, it stars Greg Kinnear, Ethan Hawke, Patricia Arquette, Kris Kristofferson, Avril Lavigne and Bruce Willis.
Kinnear plays a marketing executive at Mickey’s Fast Food Restaurant chain. Contaminated meat (high fecal count, apparently) is getting into their frozen patties and Don leaves the boardroom, heading for the “immigrant-staffed slaughterhouses, teeming feedlots and cookie cutter strip malls of Middle America”.
Written by Eric Schlosser, Fast Food Nation, published in 2001, was a nonfiction look at the fast food industry. It sold more than 1.4 million copies and spent more than a year on the New York Times bestseller list. The trailer is below:
September 8th, 2006 at 2:06 pm
I watched that while I was eating a sandwich. I now feel both a little ill, but also excited anticipating seeing this film.