Fast Food Nation Page #2

Synopsis: Don Anderson is the Mickey's food restaurant chain's Marketing Director. He is the inventor of the "Big One" the hamburger best seller of Mickey's. An independent research reports the presence of cow's feces in the Big One. So Don is sent to Cody, Colorado, to verify if the slaughterhouse, main supplier of Mickey's, is efficient as it appears and the production process is regular. During his investigations he discovers the horrible truth behind a simple hamburger; the reality is not like we think it is. Don discovers what the mass production system involves, from the temp workers like Amber, to the exploitation of Mexican irregular immigrants. It is not only the meat that is crushed in the mincing machine, but all our society.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director(s): Richard Linklater
Production: Fox Searchlight Pictures
  1 win & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.3
Metacritic:
64
Rotten Tomatoes:
50%
R
Year:
2006
116 min
$905,718
Website
498 Views


Just here in town for a couple of days

seein' where the Big Ones come from.

- Here?

- Oh, no, not here.

But at Uni-Globe Meat Packing

just outside of town.

That's where every single Big One patty

in the entire country gets made.

- No way.

- Yeah.

- It's amazing.

- Wow.

Lettuce.

Pickles and cheese.

Special-

I think I burned the meat.

Amber. Order up.

- There you go.

- Okay. Thank you.

- What's your name?

- Amber.

Right. Don Anderson.

- It's nice to meet you.

- You too.

- Maybe I'll see you around.

- All right. I'm always here.

Bye.

Brian, can I get a Coffee Freezer?

Bring it over to the scalding tank.

Amber, hon,

electric is 131 for last month.

Mom, I gotta pay my car insurance.

Well, anything helps.

So how's your day lookin'?

I have band practice after school,

then work at 6:
00.

Well, don't let them

keep you past 10:00.

I'll try to get out of there. Tony's been

pretty cool about letting me out early.

Good.

Hey.

- Hey, Amber.

- Hey, David.

- Hola.

- Hola.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Hmm.

And right over here, Don...

we mix our product

with a low-fat product...

from about a half a dozen

other plants.

The liquefied gas in the cylinder...

takes 'em down

to 40 degrees below zero!

Wow. That's a lot of Big Ones.

Yeah. Well, somewhere

in Kansas City...

someone will be eating these

tomorrow night.

...can be used to explain

how accidents happen to other people.

But accidents don't just

happen to other people.

Accident prevention

is each individual's responsibility.

This program is designed to make you

think more about accident causes...

and how you can prevent injuries.

If you eliminate

the cause of accidents...

you're on your way to an accident-free

workplace and lifetime.

Safety works in your home also.

It works when you're-

Yo. You heard about

the robbery last night?

- No. Where?

- At the McDonald's over on Cayenne.

They came in at closing time

and put everyone in the basement.

Said they'd get shot

if they came out.

- And boom- 6,000 bucks.

- No way.

- Yeah. 6,000 in cash.

- In cash?

Hell's yeah. How many times you seen somebody

buy their McNuggets with a credit card?

- Good point.

- They said it was the third

fast-food place in Cody...

to get robbed in the last few weeks.

They hit Fuddruckers on Thursday night.

We're probably next.

All the more reason

for you guys to quit.

I mean, why do you even work there?

Not all of us can get hired

at the Banana Republic.

Yo! F*** y'all doin' in my truck?

Mike.

Yeah, the Big One's been great.

Really great.

Sales keep creepin' up.

There's been no drop off.

That's what we're hearin'.

- I've had this location 12 years.

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Eric Schlosser

Eric Matthew Schlosser (born August 17, 1959) is an American journalist and author known for his investigative journalism, such as in his books Fast Food Nation (2001), Reefer Madness (2003), and Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety (2013). more…

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