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Super Size Me

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Director Morgan Spurlock's social experiment in fast-food gastronomy sees him attempting to subsist uniquely on food from the McDonald's menu for an entire month. In the process his weight balloons, his energy level plummets, and he experiences all sorts of unexpected -- and terrifying -- side effects. He also examines the corporate giant's growing role in the lives of American consumers and explores its methods of indoctrinating young people and its contribution to America's obesity epidemic.
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Entertaining doc about the adverse effects of eating fast food.

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Antonia Quirke London Evening Standard 12/14/2017
For all the film's lecturing about the rise in diabetes and good and bad fats, you suspect that its director is secretly just having a laugh with the whole thing. Go to Full Review Nell Minow Common Sense Media 12/28/2010
4/5
Fascinating documentary on American fast food. Go to Full Review Nick Schager Lessons of Darkness 05/04/2005
Might help shake the Mcfaithful out of their special sauce stupors. Go to Full Review Rob Gonsalves Rob's Movie Vault 09/19/2022
B
Might just change some minds and lives in a way that a more sober-sided Nightline treatise on fast food couldn’t. Go to Full Review Richard Propes TheIndependentCritic.com 09/24/2020
3.0/4.0
I think McDonald's is safe. Go to Full Review Felix Vasquez Jr. Cinema Crazed 04/29/2009
May affect how you eat and will serve as a rude awakening... Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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John K @WQCMI Jul 19 Say what you want about this documentary, but it did help spread a message about healthy eating and the consequences of eating fast food. See more Jerry W @Jerry169 Jul 1 There should be more enlightening movies like this one! See more Rianne M @Maddenr May 19 This is truly a gratuitous documentary. If we are to treat it seriously, which is what the documentary seemingly wants us to do, it has a very flawed methodology, a laughable sample size, and a research question whose answer was already very well established; what a waste of time and resources. See more Logan G @RT13588246 Mar 24 Lies about not drinking when he was in fact caught drinking during this film, cherry picks answers to make him look better in the documentary, absolutely terrible idk why schools show this garbage See more Steven F. @SteveGotScored Feb 15 One of the best and funniest food documentaries of all time! See more Nicholas t @nicktalbert2025 Oct 31 super size me is a good film movie the guy eats lots of mc burgers and chicken and cokes and water and eat breakfast at mc in the movie See more Read all reviews
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Morgan Spurlock

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Morgan Spurlock

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Morgan Spurlock

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Morgan Spurlock

Producer

Heather M. Winters

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Synopsis Director Morgan Spurlock's social experiment in fast-food gastronomy sees him attempting to subsist uniquely on food from the McDonald's menu for an entire month. In the process his weight balloons, his energy level plummets, and he experiences all sorts of unexpected -- and terrifying -- side effects. He also examines the corporate giant's growing role in the lives of American consumers and explores its methods of indoctrinating young people and its contribution to America's obesity epidemic.
Director
Morgan Spurlock
Producer
Morgan Spurlock
Screenwriter
Morgan Spurlock
Distributor
Samuel Goldwyn Company
Production Co
The Con
Rating
PG-13 (Language|Graphic Medical Procedure|Sex and Drug References)
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
May 7, 2004, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Nov 3, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA)
$11.5M
Runtime
1h 38m
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