Super Size Me Movie
Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock makes himself a test subject of this documentary about the commercial food industry. Rigorously eating a diet of McDonald's fast food, three times a day for a month straight. Spurlock is out to prove the physical and mental effects of consuming fast food. While doing this, Spurlock also provides a look at the food culture in America through it's schools, corporations, and politics as seen through the eyes of regular people and health advocates. "Super Size Me" is a movie that sheds a new light on what has become one of our nation's biggest health problems: obesity.
Tagline
- A film of epic portions.
The first ever reality-based movie ... everything begins and ends in 30 days!
Movie Info
- Year:
- 2004
- IMDB Rating:
- 7.6
- IMDB Votes:
- 18771
- Countries:
- USA
- Genres:
- Comedy, Documentary
- Tags:
-
Title spoken by character, Restaurant, Hospital, Independent film, Obesity, Vomit scene, Experiment, School, Part animation, Fast food restaurant
- Domestic:
- $11,536,423 (55.9%)
- + Foreign:
- $9,104,631 (44.1%)
- = Worldwide:
- $20,641,054
- Opening
Weekend: - $516,641 (41 theaters, $12,601 average) % of Total Gross: 4.5%
- Release:
- 230 theaters