Plot Summary
2011 Academy Award nominee: Best Documentary Feature. When filmmaker Josh Fox received an offer of $100,000 for the natural gas drilling rights to his northeastern Pennsylvania property, he set off on a cross-country journey to investigate the potential hazards of agreeing to the deal. What he discovered was the largest domestic natural gas drilling campaign in history, a movement currently sweeping the nation that’s promising landowners a quick and easy payoff, but leaving behind a burning trail of secrets, lies and catastrophic environmental damage.
Movie Reviews from Rotten Tomatoes
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97%- Reviews Counted: 37
- Fresh: 36
- Rotten: 1
- Average Rating: 6.9/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Fresh: With its jolting images of flammable tap water and chemically burned pets, New York theater-director-turned-documentarian Josh Fox's Sundance-feted shocker makes an irrefutable case against U.S. corporate "fracking."
Fresh: An exhaustive and eye-opening look at natural-gas drilling and its potential dangers.
Fresh: It's not pretty, but it works for some. Gasland won a special jury prize at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.
Fresh: The film is a powerful alarm -- and an evocative one.
Customer Reviews
Astoundingly brutal and scary
We had no idea any of this was taking place. Watching this doc is truly depressing and harsh.
The contrast of the footage documenting all the cases of contaminated air, water and habitat contrasted with the Congress hearings makes your stomach turn.
The movie raises very serious concerns, but not an enjoyable or empowering experience, but informative
Highly recommended! "America - this is your wake up call"
Thanks to independent media!! An informative voice that hasn't been silenced.
Wow
If you care about your drinking water even a little bit, you have to see this. A great insight to the lengths we'll go to to get fossil fuels.
Excellent
It is hard to believe that this movie recounts events of 2010. It shows levels of environmental risk that most people would imagine has not existed since the 1970s or even the dawn of the industrial era. The director does a good job of keeping the movie engaging, and letting real people do the talking and explaining how fracking is affecting their lives, health and livelihoods. The only thing that the movie could have done better is to link natural gas demand back to the western world's insatiable desire for energy and its endless consumption. A word about the people who criticize the movie as being unfair to industry - I will hazard a guess that they do not live near a natural gas operation. If even 10% of what is portrayed in the movie is accurate (and I am sure it is much higher than that) it would still be a nightmare scenario.
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