Plot Summary
Winner of the Special Jury Prize at Sundance, GASLAND is the controversial, acclaimed expose of 'fracking' the technology used in the largest domestic natural gas drilling boom in history, and the trail of secrets, lies and contamination in its wake.
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
What Happens When Industry is Unregulated
"Industry is being held back by regulation. My prosperity and yours depend on deregulation." That's one political argument one frequently hears in this country. This film shows, with respect to the energy / natural gas industry, how dangerous that argument is. You'll see with your own eyes the ways that the health and homes of people around the country have been gravely damaged by unregulated use of fracking to capture natural gas.
This is an exceedingly well-produced documentary. The cinematography and soundtrack are exceptionally good, and the filmmaker / narrator unusually intelligent and self-aware. Watch it.
An interesting view into the secrets of the energy industry.
You can get a quick view into the energy industries motivations. This isn't a huge inside look, but a good way to look at things for a short review.
Should be free
Horrible, disturbing, damning, sad. Not the movie, it was great, but to think we actually let this happen. My heart reaches out to the people whose lives are now totally ruined due to fracking. I never thought plastic bags or a few foam containers were going to bring down the planet, but this will.
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- Genre: Documentary
- Released: 2010
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