Frank Ertl

Fast Food Nation -- Based on the controversial best-selling novel, Fast Food Nation is a provocative drama that cleverly depicts the lives of several intermingled characters who are all linked to the potentially perilous and corrupt fast food industry.

An ensemble piece examining the health risks involved in the fast food industry and its environmental and social consequences as well.

An ensemble piece examining the health risks involved in the fast food industry and its environmental and social consequences as well.

Inspired by the incendiary New York Times bestseller that exposed the hidden facts behind America's fast food industry, Fast Food Nation combines an all-star ensemble cast lead by Greg Kinnear, Wilmer Valderrama and Avril Lavigne with riveting, interlocked human stories to serve up a firecracker of a movie that jumps off the screen. When a marketing executive (Kinnear) for the Mickey's burger chain is told there's a nasty secret ingredient in his latest culinary creation The Big One, he heads for the ranches and slaughterhouses of Colorado to investigate... but discovers the truth a bit difficult to swallow.