Super Size Me
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Sundance Film Festival — Best Director Academy Award Nominee — Best Documentary |
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"Witty, gross, smart, outrageous, and so clever it just about pops." —Entertainment Weekly
Morgan Spurlock's smash-hit debut put him on the documentary map. For thirty days, Spurlock ate nothing but McDonald's fast food in a gutsy (in every sense of that word) experiment. Super Size Me traces the devastating effects of the McDonald’s diet on Spurlock’s health, and raises larger questions about nutrition and American food culture. Including interviews with experts and ordinary Americans alike, Spurlock’s hilarious and horrifying expose prompted McDonald’s to change their menu. Not to be missed.
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Super Size Me is a 2004 documentary film directed by and starring Morgan Spurlock, an American independent filmmaker. Spurlock's film follows a 30-day time period (February to beginning of March 2003) during which he only eats McDonald's food. The film documents this lifestyle's drastic effects on Spurlock's physical and psychological well-being, and explores the fast food industry's corporate influence, including how it encourages poor nutrition for its own profit. Spurlock dined at McDonald's restaurants three times per day, sampling every item on the chain's menu. He also "super-sized" his meal when asked. Spurlock consumed an average of 20.92 megajoules or...
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Author Eric Schlosser, who wrote Fast Food Nation, had declined to interview for the documentary. However, Schlosser eventually agreed to an interview with Morgan Spurlock, which is featured on the DVD.
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