Big Boys Gone Bananas!

2011

1h 30m

Documentary

Biography

Drama

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78%

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23 Reviews

79%

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100+ Ratings

Swedish filmmaker Fredrik Gertten is sued by a food company after he shows a scathing documentary.

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Serena Donadoni

indieWire

Frustration, fear and anger are palpable throughout Big Boys Gone Bananas!* even though Fredrik Gertten approaches the heated rhetoric with a cool head.

Rated: A

Oct 27, 2012

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Derek Malcolm

London Evening Standard

A salutary story.

Rated: 3/5

Sep 21, 2012

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Adam Woodward

Little White Lies

Interesting enough but there's nothing here a Wikipedia page won't tell you.

Rated: 2/5

Sep 20, 2012

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Jim Ross

TAKE ONE Magazine

If the purpose of documentary is to inform and educate, you won't be left in much doubt of the challenges faced by investigative journalism worldwide after observing Gertten's struggles.

Feb 13, 2020

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Tom Watson

CineVue

Big Boys Gone Bananas!*, whilst perceivable as a tad narcissistic on the Gertten front, undeniably touches on subject matters of unavoidable importance.

Rated: 3/5

Feb 5, 2019

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Brent Simon

Shockya.com

A compelling story about freedom of speech, and how in a worldwide economy and digital age companies are even more apt to take aggressive measures to squelch voices and stories that can negatively impact their bottom lines.

Rated: B

Sep 26, 2012

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Chirrut I

This is perhaps one of the most important movies I have seen in a long time.

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

03/29/24

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sean o

Really could do with subtitles. Cannot understand why they weren't added in English. Would be a 5 otherwise.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

06/03/23

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Audience Member

Harrowing account of a multinational's attempt to silence an independent documentary about pesticide use on bananas in Nicaragua.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/24/23

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Audience Member

A brilliant, shocking example of how big money can influence reputations, credibilities and the very fabric of democracy! It is scary, depressing and riveting all at the same time!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/13/23

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Audience Member

Interesting study of Corporate terrorism and the differences between Scandanavian and US / UK / Canadian media and the alarming impact on free speech that is swallowing our culture.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

01/29/23

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Audience Member

I live for documentaries like this. Dole sucks. Sweden rules. 5 "Suns!"

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/13/23

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Fredrik Gertten

Director

Alex Rivera

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Bart Simpson

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Bernt Hermele

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Charlotte Lundgren

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Dan Koeppel

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Synopsis

Swedish filmmaker Fredrik Gertten is sued by a food company after he shows a scathing documentary.

Director: Fredrik Gertten
Producer: Fredrik Gertten
Production Co: Svenska Filminstitutet, Klassefilm, WG Film, Film i Skåne, Yleisradio, Sveriges Television, MEDIA Programme of the European Union
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 10, 2016
Runtime: 1h 30m