(L-r): Sophie Thatcher as Sadie Harper, Chris Messina as Will Harper, and Vivien Lyra Blair as Sawyer Harper in 20th Century Studios’ The Boogeyman. Photo by Patti Perret. © 2023 20th Century Studios. All Rights Reserved.
By Marc Butterfield
The Boogeyman opens with a scene that will give any parent the heeby-jeebies, and sets your skin on edge right away. From there, we quickly move to the movie’s main protagonists adjusting to their new lives after a tragic death in the family of the mother. We find that the oldest daughter, 16-year old Sadie, is having the hardest time with it, going so far as to borrow a dress from her mother’s closet to wear to school, in an effort to still feel some connection to her mother. The father, Will Harper (Chris Messina), a psychiatrist, seems unable to address the new family situation, avoiding talking about his recently...
By Marc Butterfield
The Boogeyman opens with a scene that will give any parent the heeby-jeebies, and sets your skin on edge right away. From there, we quickly move to the movie’s main protagonists adjusting to their new lives after a tragic death in the family of the mother. We find that the oldest daughter, 16-year old Sadie, is having the hardest time with it, going so far as to borrow a dress from her mother’s closet to wear to school, in an effort to still feel some connection to her mother. The father, Will Harper (Chris Messina), a psychiatrist, seems unable to address the new family situation, avoiding talking about his recently...
- 6/3/2023
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Fashion-forward viewers of Cate Blanchett’s latest film Where’d You Go, Bernadette might recognize a glimpse of Anna Wintour in the titular character's signature bob and large sunglasses (plus, they both have a daughter named Bee). But any likeness to the Vogue mastermind is purely coincidental — costume designer Kari Perkins instead found inspiration in Audrey Hepburn and, of course, the source material of the movie, the book of the same name by Maria Semple.
In the film out Friday, architectural prodigy Bernadette Fox has moved from Los Angeles to Seattle to have a family. Now married to a Microsoft ...
In the film out Friday, architectural prodigy Bernadette Fox has moved from Los Angeles to Seattle to have a family. Now married to a Microsoft ...
- 8/16/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Fashion-forward viewers of Cate Blanchett’s latest film Where’d You Go, Bernadette might recognize a glimpse of Anna Wintour in the titular character's signature bob and large sunglasses (plus, they both have a daughter named Bee). But any likeness to the Vogue mastermind is purely coincidental — costume designer Kari Perkins instead found inspiration in Audrey Hepburn and, of course, the source material of the movie, the book of the same name by Maria Semple.
In the film out Friday, architectural prodigy Bernadette Fox has moved from Los Angeles to Seattle to have a family. Now married to a Microsoft ...
In the film out Friday, architectural prodigy Bernadette Fox has moved from Los Angeles to Seattle to have a family. Now married to a Microsoft ...
- 8/16/2019
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Opening Wednesday, November 22nd is Last Flag Flying.
In 2003, 30 years after they served together in the Vietnam War, former Navy Corps medic Larry “Doc” Shepherd (Steve Carell) re-unites with Former Marines Sal Nealon (Bryan Cranston) and Reverend Richard Mueller (Laurence Fishburne) on a different type of mission: to bury Doc’s son, a young Marine killed in the Iraq War. Doc decides to forgo burial at Arlington Cemetery and, with the help of his old buddies, takes the casket on a bittersweet trip up the East Coast to his home in suburban New Hampshire. Along the way, Doc, Sal and Mueller reminisce and come to terms with shared memories of the war that continues to shape their lives.
A thoughtful and moving road movie from Oscar®-nominated director Richard Linklater (Boyhood, 2014), Last Flag Flying brims with humor, melancholy and regret as it examines the lasting effect of choices made in the crucible of war.
In 2003, 30 years after they served together in the Vietnam War, former Navy Corps medic Larry “Doc” Shepherd (Steve Carell) re-unites with Former Marines Sal Nealon (Bryan Cranston) and Reverend Richard Mueller (Laurence Fishburne) on a different type of mission: to bury Doc’s son, a young Marine killed in the Iraq War. Doc decides to forgo burial at Arlington Cemetery and, with the help of his old buddies, takes the casket on a bittersweet trip up the East Coast to his home in suburban New Hampshire. Along the way, Doc, Sal and Mueller reminisce and come to terms with shared memories of the war that continues to shape their lives.
A thoughtful and moving road movie from Oscar®-nominated director Richard Linklater (Boyhood, 2014), Last Flag Flying brims with humor, melancholy and regret as it examines the lasting effect of choices made in the crucible of war.
- 11/16/2017
- by Movie Geeks
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Selena Gomez is definitely one fashion force to be reckoned with. With a feminine, elegant yet youthful style, the young star always has fun with her looks.
Whether it’s a romantic date with boyfriend The Weeknd, a red carpet or wandering city streets, all her ensembles make us wish we could have a look at her closet to get a peek at her must-have wardrobe for fashion inspiration.
Well, we’re just in luck. The Instagram account @selenascloset is helping fans achieve the looks worn by the singer. From the tank top she wore in her music video for...
Whether it’s a romantic date with boyfriend The Weeknd, a red carpet or wandering city streets, all her ensembles make us wish we could have a look at her closet to get a peek at her must-have wardrobe for fashion inspiration.
Well, we’re just in luck. The Instagram account @selenascloset is helping fans achieve the looks worn by the singer. From the tank top she wore in her music video for...
- 7/11/2017
- by Pia Velasco
- PEOPLE.com
Richard Linklater's Last Flag Flying to open 55th New York Film Festival Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
The Film Society of Lincoln Center (Flag Day in the Us is today, June 14) announced on Monday that the World Premiere of Richard Linklater's Last Flag Flying - co-written with Darryl Ponicsan (Cinderella Liberty, The Last Detail), produced by Ginger Sledge, John Sloss, and Thomas Lee Wright, starring Steve Carell, Bryan Cranston and Laurence Fishburne - is the Opening Night Gala selection of the New York Film Festival. Linklater's terrific Boyhood team of cinematographer Shane F Kelly, editor Sandra Adair, and costume designer Kari Perkins worked also on his latest.
Kent Jones: "Last Flag Flying is many things at once - infectiously funny, quietly shattering, celebratory, mournful, meditative, intimate, expansive, vastly entertaining, and …" Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
The Festival Director and Selection Committee Chair is Kent Jones. Dennis Lim, Fslc Director of Programming; Florence Almozini,...
The Film Society of Lincoln Center (Flag Day in the Us is today, June 14) announced on Monday that the World Premiere of Richard Linklater's Last Flag Flying - co-written with Darryl Ponicsan (Cinderella Liberty, The Last Detail), produced by Ginger Sledge, John Sloss, and Thomas Lee Wright, starring Steve Carell, Bryan Cranston and Laurence Fishburne - is the Opening Night Gala selection of the New York Film Festival. Linklater's terrific Boyhood team of cinematographer Shane F Kelly, editor Sandra Adair, and costume designer Kari Perkins worked also on his latest.
Kent Jones: "Last Flag Flying is many things at once - infectiously funny, quietly shattering, celebratory, mournful, meditative, intimate, expansive, vastly entertaining, and …" Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
The Festival Director and Selection Committee Chair is Kent Jones. Dennis Lim, Fslc Director of Programming; Florence Almozini,...
- 6/14/2017
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
If you’re looking for alternatives to raiding Target for costumes for your next production, UCLA can help. Its School of Theater, Film and Television (UCLA Tft) is hosting a panel of top Hollywood costume designers Feb. 21. Mark Bridges (“Inherent Vice”), Milena Canonero (“The Grand Budapest Hotel”), Jacqueline Durran (“Mr. Turner”), Anna B. Sheppard (“Maleficent”), Ruth E. Carter (“Selma”), Kari Perkins (“Boyhood”) and Albert Wolsky (“Birdman”) will be featured at the fifth annual Sketch to Screen Costume Design Panel. The event, which starts at 2 p.m., takes place on campus at Schoenberg Hall. Tickets range from $10-$30. Other upcoming events include: Horrible Movie NightFeb. 13 from 9-10:30 p.m.NerdMelt Showroom 7522 Sunset Blvd., Hollywood Tickets are $8 in advance; $10 at the door. Popcorn is free. Puppetzilla’s Anti-Valentine’s Day SlamFeb. 15 at 6:30 p.m.Bootleg Theater2220 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles Tickets $8 in advance, $13 day of at the door. Meet the Casting Directors 2015Feb.
- 2/12/2015
- backstage.com
Nominees For The 17th Costume Designers Guild Awards: Excellence In Contemporary Film Birdman – Albert Wolsky Boyhood – Kari Perkins Gone Girl – Trish Summerville Interstellar – Mary Zophres Wild – Melissa Bruning Excellence In...
- 1/7/2015
- by Sasha Stone
- AwardsDaily.com
The Costume Guild Nominees have been announced. It's worth noting, always, with guilds that their memberships are much broader than their correlative branch within the Academy. Neverthless they often stick closely to whichever movies are being talked up for Best Picture, regardless of their guild-specific merits. Note some of the nominations below.
Excellence in Contemporary Film
Birdman - Albert Wolsky
Boyhood - Kari Perkins
Gone Girl - Trish Summerville
Interstellar - Mary Zophres
Wild – Melissa Bruning
Albert Wolsky is a legend and Trish Summerville has been killing it lately so no complaints there. But the contemporary categories, as with all guilds, are where you can see how distracted people get with their feelings for the movie at hand and not with the [insert field]. My point is this: These are five strong movies but did they even consider, say, Mommy, Only Lovers Left Alive, Neighbors, Begin Again, 22 Jump Street, or Lucy? And if they didn't,...
Excellence in Contemporary Film
Birdman - Albert Wolsky
Boyhood - Kari Perkins
Gone Girl - Trish Summerville
Interstellar - Mary Zophres
Wild – Melissa Bruning
Albert Wolsky is a legend and Trish Summerville has been killing it lately so no complaints there. But the contemporary categories, as with all guilds, are where you can see how distracted people get with their feelings for the movie at hand and not with the [insert field]. My point is this: These are five strong movies but did they even consider, say, Mommy, Only Lovers Left Alive, Neighbors, Begin Again, 22 Jump Street, or Lucy? And if they didn't,...
- 1/7/2015
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
“The Grand Budapest Hotel,” “Into the Woods” and “Inherent Vice” are among the nominees for the 16th Annual Costume Designers Guild Awards, the CDG announced on Wednesday.
So is “Selma,” which ended a 0-for-5 drought and picked up its first guild nomination of the year.
The guild chooses nominees in three separate categories: Excellence in Contemporary Film, Excellence in Period Film and Excellence in Fantasy Film. In recent years the Cdg has typically nominated three or four of the films that will go on to receive Oscar nominees for Best Costume Design – and in virtually every case, they’ve come...
So is “Selma,” which ended a 0-for-5 drought and picked up its first guild nomination of the year.
The guild chooses nominees in three separate categories: Excellence in Contemporary Film, Excellence in Period Film and Excellence in Fantasy Film. In recent years the Cdg has typically nominated three or four of the films that will go on to receive Oscar nominees for Best Costume Design – and in virtually every case, they’ve come...
- 1/7/2015
- by Steve Pond
- The Wrap
Birdman, Boyhood, Gone Girl, Interstellar and Wild are the contemporary film nominees for the 17th Costume Designers Guild Awards. The Grand Budapest Hotel, The Imitation Game, Inherent Vice, Selma and The Theory Of Everything have nabbed the period film nominees announced today. Outstanding contemporary television nominees are House Of Cards, Ray Donovan, Saturday Night Live, Scandal and True Detective. Winners will be announced February 17 in a ceremony at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
Special honorees include producer, director and screenwriter Richard Linklater (who recently collaborated with costume designer Kari Perkins on Boyhood) will receive the Distinguished Collaborator Award in recognition of his support of Costume Design and creative partnerships with Costume Designers. An Honorary Career Achievement Award will be presented to Costume Designer Aggie Guerard Rodgers for her outstanding work in film. The 2015 Edith Head Award for the Advancement of the Art of Costume Design will be presented to costume designer,...
Special honorees include producer, director and screenwriter Richard Linklater (who recently collaborated with costume designer Kari Perkins on Boyhood) will receive the Distinguished Collaborator Award in recognition of his support of Costume Design and creative partnerships with Costume Designers. An Honorary Career Achievement Award will be presented to Costume Designer Aggie Guerard Rodgers for her outstanding work in film. The 2015 Edith Head Award for the Advancement of the Art of Costume Design will be presented to costume designer,...
- 1/7/2015
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline
The Costume Designers Guild joined the guild chorus Wednesday morning with a list of nominees across three categories: contemporary, period and fantasy designs. On the list, and finally joining the guild party, is "Selma" from legendary outfitter Ruth E. Carter. It's the first guild mention for the film so far and obviously a warranted one. Carter was joined on the period side by "The Grand Budapest Hotel," "The Imitation Game," "Inherent Vice" (yay!) and "The Theory of Everything." Meanwhile, I'm trying to figure out what makes "Interstellar" a contemporary film rather than a fantasy film (which is how the art directors classified it). Either way, I'm sure the team is happy to be included. I can't believe, though, that "Mr. Turner" has been excluded from both this list and the art directors'. Though it feels like this kind of thing has happened before, only to be righted by the Academy.
- 1/7/2015
- by Kristopher Tapley
- Hitfix
No round up last week because we were a bit busy, so this week is Mega Jammed With Costume Goodness.
Puttin’ on the Glitz
We teamed up with Amber Jane Butchart and The British Library to talk jazz age fashion and dandy gangsters. Further coverage to follow…
Costume Test Images
50 of them to be precise, from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes to Star Wars, Batman, and beyond.
Noah
Mad good interview/article by Tyranny of Style with Noah’s Head Textile Artist Matt Reitsma. There is absolutely no way you can care about costume design and not read this.
Business of Fashion
Costume designers, fashion designers, studios, brands, and a business venture 100 years in the making. Thanks to Ajb for putting this thought provoking article under our nose.
Birds Eye View Film Festival – Fashion and Film
Curated by Kathryn Ferguson, who will hold Q&A’s with some of the directors featured.
Puttin’ on the Glitz
We teamed up with Amber Jane Butchart and The British Library to talk jazz age fashion and dandy gangsters. Further coverage to follow…
Costume Test Images
50 of them to be precise, from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes to Star Wars, Batman, and beyond.
Noah
Mad good interview/article by Tyranny of Style with Noah’s Head Textile Artist Matt Reitsma. There is absolutely no way you can care about costume design and not read this.
Business of Fashion
Costume designers, fashion designers, studios, brands, and a business venture 100 years in the making. Thanks to Ajb for putting this thought provoking article under our nose.
Birds Eye View Film Festival – Fashion and Film
Curated by Kathryn Ferguson, who will hold Q&A’s with some of the directors featured.
- 4/5/2014
- by Lord Christopher Laverty
- Clothes on Film
Variety is reporting that Image Entertainment has scooped up the distribution rights to Atom Egoyan’s crime thriller Devil’s Knot. Image, a division of Maryland-based Rlj Entertainment, plans to release the film next year in the second quarter.
Synopsis:
Worldview Entertainment's dramatic crime thriller Devil's Knot, filmed in the greater Atlanta, Georgia, area under the direction of Atom Egoyan, stars Reese Witherspoon and Colin Firth with a screenplay by Paul Harris Boardman and Scott Derrickson. Elizabeth Fowler, Richard Saperstein, and Clark Peterson produced Devil’s Knot alongside Worldview Entertainment CEO Christopher Woodrow. Worldview’s Molly Conners, Sarah Johnson Redlich, Maria Cestone, and Hoyt David Morgan executive produced alongside actual defendants Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley, Jr. Devil’s Knot is a Fowler-Saperstein-Peterson Production.
Following the release from prison of the West Memphis Three, after nearly 20 years of incarceration, Hollywood was abuzz with plans to develop the teen trio's...
Synopsis:
Worldview Entertainment's dramatic crime thriller Devil's Knot, filmed in the greater Atlanta, Georgia, area under the direction of Atom Egoyan, stars Reese Witherspoon and Colin Firth with a screenplay by Paul Harris Boardman and Scott Derrickson. Elizabeth Fowler, Richard Saperstein, and Clark Peterson produced Devil’s Knot alongside Worldview Entertainment CEO Christopher Woodrow. Worldview’s Molly Conners, Sarah Johnson Redlich, Maria Cestone, and Hoyt David Morgan executive produced alongside actual defendants Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley, Jr. Devil’s Knot is a Fowler-Saperstein-Peterson Production.
Following the release from prison of the West Memphis Three, after nearly 20 years of incarceration, Hollywood was abuzz with plans to develop the teen trio's...
- 10/7/2013
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
The first still from the true-crime tale Devil's Knot, which is based on the tragedy surrounding the now freed West Memphis Three, is here, and it offers your first look at Reese Witherspoon as Pam Hobbs, the mother of Steve Branch, one of the three children savagely murdered in Arkansas in 1993.
Synopsis:
Worldview Entertainment's dramatic crime thriller Devil's Knot, filmed in the greater Atlanta, Georgia, area under the direction of Atom Egoyan, stars Reese Witherspoon and Colin Firth with a screenplay by Paul Harris Boardman and Scott Derrickson. Elizabeth Fowler, Richard Saperstein, and Clark Peterson produced Devil’s Knot alongside Worldview Entertainment CEO Christopher Woodrow. Worldview’s Molly Conners, Sarah Johnson Redlich, Maria Cestone, and Hoyt David Morgan executive produced alongside actual defendants Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley, Jr. Devil’s Knot is a Fowler-Saperstein-Peterson Production.
Following the release from prison of the West Memphis Three, after nearly 20 years of incarceration,...
Synopsis:
Worldview Entertainment's dramatic crime thriller Devil's Knot, filmed in the greater Atlanta, Georgia, area under the direction of Atom Egoyan, stars Reese Witherspoon and Colin Firth with a screenplay by Paul Harris Boardman and Scott Derrickson. Elizabeth Fowler, Richard Saperstein, and Clark Peterson produced Devil’s Knot alongside Worldview Entertainment CEO Christopher Woodrow. Worldview’s Molly Conners, Sarah Johnson Redlich, Maria Cestone, and Hoyt David Morgan executive produced alongside actual defendants Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley, Jr. Devil’s Knot is a Fowler-Saperstein-Peterson Production.
Following the release from prison of the West Memphis Three, after nearly 20 years of incarceration,...
- 5/22/2013
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
CANNES -- The great expose of the meat-packing industry was Upton Sinclair's The Jungle, his 1906 muckraking novel that shocked a nation and led to stricter federal controls over food safety. Eric Schlosser's 2001 Fast Food Nation not only confirmed that many meat safety issues remain unsolved but portrayed a country so addicted to grab-and-eat junk food that a fifth of its adolescents are obese and major health issues abound. Which is why Richard Linklater's curious attempt to make a narrative feature from that nonfiction book is so disappointing. Following up on Morgan Spurlock's wildly successful indie film Super Size Me, critics of fast food were hoping that a one-two punch would further raise consciousness among consumers and purveyors alike. Alas, Fast Food Nation is punchless.
What Linklater and Schlosser arrive at in their screenwriting collaboration is a collection of characters inhabiting or passing through the medium-sized Colorado berg of Cody, a kind of Our Town set in strip malls and fast-food joints that make Cody look like Anywhere USA with nothing distinctive about the place. That lack of definition extends, unfortunately, to the characters -- all are well-known types, but few are individuals.
It's hard to see this Fox Searchlight release having much impact in U.S. art houses, where our poor dietary habits, mistreatment of undocumented workers and cynical business practices are old news. The film plays better in Europe, where it says all the things people here love to hear about America.
The conceit of the movie has every character tangentially connected to fast food, from the executive from Mickey's fast-food restaurant chain (Greg Kinnear) sent to the town's big meat-packing plant to investigate contamination in the company's meat, to high schoolers who work at Mickey's (Ashley Johnson, Paul Dano), undocumented plant workers Catalina Sandino Moreno, Ana Claudia Talancon, Wilmer Valderrama), their coyote (Luis Guzman), the predatory line boss (Bobby Cannavale), a rancher (Kris Kristofferson), a meat buyer (Bruce Willis) and the young political activist Lou Taylor Pucci) willing to commit acts of eco-terrorism.
The movie never decides whether it wants to be The Jungle or Our Town. Characters' story lines keep intersecting the film's journalistic purpose, throwing off both ambitions.
Some characters take you out of the movie altogether. Linklater regular Ethan Hawke shows up as Johnson's uncle and for several scenes lectures her on the dead-end nature of life in Cody, none of which is necessary because his niece and the movie's viewers are already in agreement on that point.
Promising story lines disappear, like Kinnear's radicalized exec, who gets a lecture from Willis on the realities of Big Food Business in America and then drops out of the picture. And the movie's astonished examination of the exploitation of illegal aliens is hardly a revelation.
Nevertheless, the movie thumbs through the book's chapters with its cardboard characters. You get the sexual harassment of female plant workers, wretched plant conditions, a bloody industrial accident and -- in the movie's "money" shot saved for last -- the butchering of cows and ripping apart of carcasses to make more Mickey's burgers.
Yet the lives of these characters are too dull to compel interest, and the shock value of the documentary excursions has little impact other than perhaps to alter dinner plans after the movie.
FAST FOOD NATION
Fox Searchlight Pictures
A Recorded Picture Co. presentation in association with HanWay Films, Participant Prods. and BBC Films
Credits:
Director: Richard Linklater
Screenwriters: Richard Linklater, Eric Schlosser
Based on the book by: Eric Schlosser
Producers: Jeremy Thomas, Malcolm MacLaren
Executive producers: Jeff Skoll, Ricky Strauss, Chris Salvaterra, Ed Saxon, Peter Watson, Eric Schlosser, David M. Thompson
Director of photography: Lee Daniel
Production designer: Bruce Curtis
Music: Friends of Dean Martinez
Costumes: Kari Perkins, Lee Hunsaker
Editor: Sandra Adair
Cast:
Don: Greg Kinnear
Mike: Bobby Cannavale
Cindy: Patricia Arquette
Amber: Ashley Johnson
Tony: Esai Morales
Sylvia: Catalina Sandino Moreno
Paco: Lou Taylor Pucci
Coco: Ana Claudia Talancon
MPAA rating R
Running time -- 112 minutes...
What Linklater and Schlosser arrive at in their screenwriting collaboration is a collection of characters inhabiting or passing through the medium-sized Colorado berg of Cody, a kind of Our Town set in strip malls and fast-food joints that make Cody look like Anywhere USA with nothing distinctive about the place. That lack of definition extends, unfortunately, to the characters -- all are well-known types, but few are individuals.
It's hard to see this Fox Searchlight release having much impact in U.S. art houses, where our poor dietary habits, mistreatment of undocumented workers and cynical business practices are old news. The film plays better in Europe, where it says all the things people here love to hear about America.
The conceit of the movie has every character tangentially connected to fast food, from the executive from Mickey's fast-food restaurant chain (Greg Kinnear) sent to the town's big meat-packing plant to investigate contamination in the company's meat, to high schoolers who work at Mickey's (Ashley Johnson, Paul Dano), undocumented plant workers Catalina Sandino Moreno, Ana Claudia Talancon, Wilmer Valderrama), their coyote (Luis Guzman), the predatory line boss (Bobby Cannavale), a rancher (Kris Kristofferson), a meat buyer (Bruce Willis) and the young political activist Lou Taylor Pucci) willing to commit acts of eco-terrorism.
The movie never decides whether it wants to be The Jungle or Our Town. Characters' story lines keep intersecting the film's journalistic purpose, throwing off both ambitions.
Some characters take you out of the movie altogether. Linklater regular Ethan Hawke shows up as Johnson's uncle and for several scenes lectures her on the dead-end nature of life in Cody, none of which is necessary because his niece and the movie's viewers are already in agreement on that point.
Promising story lines disappear, like Kinnear's radicalized exec, who gets a lecture from Willis on the realities of Big Food Business in America and then drops out of the picture. And the movie's astonished examination of the exploitation of illegal aliens is hardly a revelation.
Nevertheless, the movie thumbs through the book's chapters with its cardboard characters. You get the sexual harassment of female plant workers, wretched plant conditions, a bloody industrial accident and -- in the movie's "money" shot saved for last -- the butchering of cows and ripping apart of carcasses to make more Mickey's burgers.
Yet the lives of these characters are too dull to compel interest, and the shock value of the documentary excursions has little impact other than perhaps to alter dinner plans after the movie.
FAST FOOD NATION
Fox Searchlight Pictures
A Recorded Picture Co. presentation in association with HanWay Films, Participant Prods. and BBC Films
Credits:
Director: Richard Linklater
Screenwriters: Richard Linklater, Eric Schlosser
Based on the book by: Eric Schlosser
Producers: Jeremy Thomas, Malcolm MacLaren
Executive producers: Jeff Skoll, Ricky Strauss, Chris Salvaterra, Ed Saxon, Peter Watson, Eric Schlosser, David M. Thompson
Director of photography: Lee Daniel
Production designer: Bruce Curtis
Music: Friends of Dean Martinez
Costumes: Kari Perkins, Lee Hunsaker
Editor: Sandra Adair
Cast:
Don: Greg Kinnear
Mike: Bobby Cannavale
Cindy: Patricia Arquette
Amber: Ashley Johnson
Tony: Esai Morales
Sylvia: Catalina Sandino Moreno
Paco: Lou Taylor Pucci
Coco: Ana Claudia Talancon
MPAA rating R
Running time -- 112 minutes...
- 5/20/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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