King Corn
Aaron Woolf
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Plot Summary
KING CORN is a fun and crusading journey into the digestive tract of our fast food nation where one ultra-industrial, pesticide-laden, heavily-subsidized commodity dominates the food pyramid from top to bottom – corn. Fueled by curiosity and a dash of naivete, two college buddies return to their ancestral home of Greene, Iowa to figure out how a modest kernel conquered America. With the help of some real farmers, oodles of fertilizer and government aide, and some genetically modified seeds, the friends manage to grow one acre of corn. Along the way, they unlock the hilarious absurdities and scary but hidden truths about America’s modern food system in this engrossing and eye-opening documentary.
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Movie Reviews from Rotten Tomatoes
TOMATOMETER
96%- Reviews Counted: 24
- Fresh: 23
- Rotten: 1
- Average Rating: 7.6/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Fresh: Aaron Woolf's we-are-what-we-eat documentary King Corn is a lively introduction to the corn industrial complex.
Fresh: Deftly balances humor and insight.
Fresh: King Corn is entertaining enough, but it's also a moral, crucially skeptical road trip down the food chain.
Fresh: A deceptively intelligent new entry in the regular-Joe documentary genre.
Customer Reviews
Clever look at the proliferation of corn in our diet
Entertaining documentary that isn't over the top or overly partisan like many recent docs, well worth a watch.
King Corn
While the information given in this documentary is excellent, there are super long dragging gaps where nothing is happening, no information is given, and even the music is second rate. I expected the information to move along more like in Food Inc or Supersize Me. Instead one was at risk of falling asleep and missing everything of value which in a few words is FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP IS KILLING US.
Corn...
I'm popped! what else can I say? Great job guys!
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