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| King Corn (Green Packaging) | 
 enlarge | Director: Aaron Woolf
Actors: Michael Pollan, Ian Cheney, Curt Ellis, Stephen Macko, Chuck Pyatt
Studio: DOCURAMA
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 7155
Format: Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 90
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.2 x 5.1 x 0.4
MPN: NNVG110891
UPC: 767685110898
EAN: 0767685110898
ASIN: B0012680D0
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Release Date: April 29, 2008
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Picking up where Super Size Me left off, King Corn examines America's health woes through the multifaceted lens of one humble grain. Director Aaron Woolf and co-writers Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis offer irrefutable proof that the US is virtually drowning in the stuff. Corn meal, corn starch, hydrologized corn protein, and high fructose corn syrup fuel a multitude of products, from soft drinks to hamburgers. The starchy vegetable grows with ease and government subsidies insure over-abundant production. Woolf documents the 11-month effort of college friends Cheney and Ellis, who trace their ancestry to the same small Iowa town, to raise their own crop. After finding a farmer willing to lend them an acre, they meet with agronomists, historians, and other experts before plowing, seeding, and spraying. Prior to harvesting, the easygoing Yale grads travel to Colorado to compare the grass-fed cattle of yore with today's corn-fed counterparts; then to New York to explore the links between corn syrup, obesity, and diabetes. With assistance from author Michael Pollan (The Herbivore's Dilemma), a whimsical score, and stop-motion animation--farm toys and corn kernels--Woolf and associates bring biochemistry to vivid life. On a micro level, this genial eye-opener celebrates friends and farmers; on a macro level, King Corn bemoans the subsidies and genetic modifications that have turned a formerly protein-filled product into the fatty "yellow dent no. 2." Bonus features include a music video, photo gallery, and "The Lost Basement Lectures," an amusingly fake instructional movie about the aims of agriculture. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
Product Description
Engrossing and eye-opening 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 naivet college buddies Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis 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 aid 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."A graceful and frequently humorous film that captures the idiosyncrasies of its characters and never hectors" (Salon) KING CORN shows how and why whenever you eat a hamburger or drink a soda you re really consuming corn.System Requirements:Running Time: 90 mintuesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES/SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Rating: NR UPC: 767685110898 Manufacturer No: NNVG110891
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 Great objective corn expose November 24, 2008
This movie feels like I'm hearing a story told by an old college buddy. It's pretty objective, just relating their experience without preaching, facts are presented as facts and not interpreted, they leave that to the audience. Great way to introduce beginners to the prevalence of CORN in our modern (American) society.
This Could Change Your Life For the Better Quickly November 23, 2008
This movie should be required for every person in America. Do we have an obesity epidemic? Just look around you next time you are in a fast food restaurant, Walmart, or other bastion of food eaters. There is a reason why we get fat and it is called high frictous corn syrup. Try and find something in a grocery store without it; good luck. This movie looks at the cause of it through the use of our corn harvest. Scientifically you could be said to be primarily corn as that is the vast majority of what is eaten no matter what your eating habits are. If you are a vegetarian you are even more likely to have issues. This movie is not for the faint heart who do not want to learn the truth.
The Healthy Habits Coach November 23, 2008
I recently showed this film to my local dietitian group, and not only did it get two thumbs up, but we agreed that this is a film everyone should see. This is like the cliff note version for Michael Pollan's excellent book Omnivores Dilemma. Start with the film and if you want to know more, read the book.
King Corn is about two friends who decide to grow corn on an acre of land in Iowa to learn more about how our food system works. They spend a year going through the full growing cycle as well as following where that corn goes (or is likely to go) in the food chain. In their quietly understated way, they tell a story that is disturbing and in the end really grabs you. At least it did me, and I already knew this stuff. Somehow seeing it in the documentary format made it really hit home.
This is well worth the price and the 90 minute running time. It will give you new insight into what you are eating, and is something you'll want to share with friends.
Educational and Enternaining November 12, 2008
This was an excellent film on consumption and uses for corn and how it is contributing to the obesity epidemic. The film was factual and also very entertaining and kept it's audience's attention for the whole film.
 would you like corn syrup with that? November 4, 2008
A documentary about Corn. The turning point of the story begins when Republican Earl Butz ushers in the "Get big or get out" era. The idea was to reduce subsidies by dramatically increasing subsidies. (technically there would be fewer farmers receiving subsidies when there are fewer remaining farmers).
The older townsfolk interviewed don't come off as cynical. They come off as fatalistically pragmatic. Both dependent on large subsidies and likely to be run out of business by people better at lining up subsidies and agribusiness contracts, they all know it is the only game in town.
In the end King Corn enables the cheap production of massive amounts of meat and corn syrup. Even most of the poorest americans can now afford to feed themselves into 280 pound bodies and diabetes. We wouldn't have our massive number of fast food restaurants and ubiquitous chain restaurants without King Corn. Those restaurants provide jobs people need: They sure aren't going to be farmers, grocers, or butchers.
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