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Fast Food Nation (2006)

Catalina Sandino Moreno is playing Sylvia

Quick Facts

Director Richard Linklater
Script Eric Schlosser and Richard Linklater
Based upon the book by Eric Schlosser
Genre Drama
Tagline The Truth Is Hard To Swallow
Shooting August-October 2005 in Texas, USA and Mexico
Festivals Cannes Film Festival (May 19, 2006), Lyon Festival Hors-Écran (Oct. 15, 2006), Gothenburg International Film Festival (Jan. 27, 2007), Berlin International Film Festival (Feb. 16, 2007), Las Palmas Film Festival (March 17, 2007)
Theatrical Release USA: November 16, 2006 / Germany: March 1, 2007 / UK: May 4, 2007
DVD Release USA: March 6, 2007 / UK: August 27, 2007
Starring Catalina Sandino Moreno, Ethan Hawke, Greg Kinnear, Kris Kristofferson, Luis Guzman, Patricia Arquette, Paul Dano, Wilmer Valderrama

Synopsis

Don Henderson (Greg Kinnear)- a marketing executive at Mickey’s Fast Food Restaurant chain, home of “The Big One” - has a problem. Contaminated meat is getting into the frozen patties of the company’s best-selling burger. To find out why, he’ll have to take a journey to the dark side of the All-American meal. Leaving the cushy confines of the company’s Southern California boardroom for the immigrant-staffed slaughterhouses, teeming feedlots and cookie cutter strip malls of Middle America, what Don discovers is a Fast Food Nation of consumers who haven’t realized it is they who are being consumed by an industry with a seemingly endless appetite for fresh meat.

Quotes by Catalina

With Maria Full of Grace, she was a girl who got caught up in the moment and left the United States. She was not planning to leave Columbia. But Sylvia, I think she planned to go to the US and leave everything behind and that’s the big difference I see between those two people. That one had the strong American dream and the other one got caught in the moment.

Fast Food Nation was a scary book to read. I didn’t know about the fast food industry in America, so it was an eye-opener for me. To be in the slaughterhouse when they were killing a cow, with the blood and the awful smell - I was not prepared for that.

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