Big Boys Gone Bananas!

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Big Boys Gone Bananas!

2011

1h 30m

Documentary

Biography

Drama

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

Serena Donadoni

IndieWire

10/27/2012

A

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

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Derek Malcolm

London Evening Standard

09/21/2012

3/5

A salutary story.

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Adam Woodward

Little White Lies

09/20/2012

2/5

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

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Jim Ross

TAKE ONE Magazine

02/13/2020

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.

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Tom Watson

CineVue

02/05/2019

3/5

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

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Brent Simon

Shockya.com

09/26/2012

B

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.

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Chirrut I

03/29/2024

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

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sean o

06/03/2023

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

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10/04/2014

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

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08/07/2014

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!

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01/16/2014

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.

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01/02/2014

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

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