Official Selection - Cannes Film Festival 2006
Richard Linklater directs this controversial adaptation of Eric Schlosser's book Fast Food Nation.
"The Big One" is the latest burger from fast-food chain Michey's and it's shaping up to be their most successful product yet. However, there's something strange in the meat. Company man Don is sent to investigate the meat packing plant in Cody, Colorado where "The Big One" comes from.
Raul, Coco and Sylvia are also new to Cody. Having illegally crossed the border from Mexico, they search for the American dream and wind up as new workers at the same meat packing plant. The clean and efficient plant Don is shown bears little relation to what goes on behind the scenes. Workers are ruthlessly exploited as the cattle they carve up and process.
School kid Amber works in the local outlet of Mickey's to help pay her mother's bills and hopefully save enough to get the hell out of town. Seeing the real legacy of fast-food chains like Mickey's, Amber and her friends have their own plan about how to stop America and the world becoming Fast Food Nations...