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King Corn (2007)

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Reviews Counted:20

Fresh:19

Rotten:1

Average Rating:7.7/10

Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 90 mins

Genre: Musical & Performing Arts

Theatrical Release:Oct 12, 2007 Limited

Synopsis: King Corn is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. In King Corn, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from... King Corn is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation.

In King Corn, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the east coast, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America’s most-productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat—and how we farm. --&;copy Balcony Releasing
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Starring: Curt Ellis, Ian Cheney

Starring: Curt Ellis, Ian Cheney

Director: Aaron Woolf

Director: Aaron Woolf
Producer: Aaron Woolf
Composer: WoWz, Bo Ramsey, Spencer Chakedis
Studio: Balcony Releasing

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  • 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 naiveté, 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.
  • Source: New Video Group, Inc.
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    Someone pass the Fritos!

    Full Review Source: Filmcritic.com | comment Comment
    10/03/08
    Christopher Null
    Christopher Null
    Filmcritic.com

    There is an interesting story here. It's just that the movie doesn't tell it very well.

    Full Review Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press | comment 1 Comment
    12/07/07
    Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
    Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
    St. Paul Pioneer Press

    Engaging and illuminating.

    Full Review Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | comment Comment
    11/16/07
    Meg Jones
    Meg Jones
    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

    Simultaneously nostalgic and sinister, King Corn mixes full-blown Americana with fast-food follies in the Iowa heartland.

    Full Review Source: Seattle Times | comment Comment
    11/16/07
    John Hartl
    John Hartl
    Seattle Times

    The film always teaches and entertains in equal, ample measure. It's a treat -- and it's good for you.

    Full Review Source: Oregonian | comment Comment
    11/09/07
    Shawn Levy
    Shawn Levy
    Oregonian

    A breezy diary from a pair of first-time farmers, as well as a wry rebuke to a nation devoted to eating cheaply but not necessarily well, King Corn makes its points without much finger-wagging.

    Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | comment Comment
    11/08/07
    Michael Phillips
    Michael Phillips
    Chicago Tribune
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    entertaining and even a little mischievous, it finds perverse outcomes, but no villains. It is informative, without creating partisanship, respectful without being patronizing, entertaining without being dumbed-down

    Full Review Source: Killer Movie Reviews | comment Comment
    11/03/07
    Andrea Chase
    Andrea Chase
    Killer Movie Reviews

    While there's no startling news here -- most people know that high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) is a staple in food processing and isn't particularly good for us -- this documentary neatly, and often humorously, summarizes a very unhealthy situation.

    Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment Comment
    11/02/07
    Walter V. Addiego
    Walter V. Addiego
    San Francisco Chronicle
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    King Corn becomes an indispensable supplement to Spurlock's Super Size Me.

    Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid | comment Comment
    11/01/07
    Jeffrey M. Anderson
    Jeffrey M. Anderson
    Combustible Celluloid

    King Corn is entertaining enough, but it's also a moral, crucially skeptical road trip down the food chain.

    Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment Comment
    10/26/07
    Los Angeles Times
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    Absorbing...it's a lot of science and perspective to cover, yet Woolf manages to keep King Corn focused and sedate.

    Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com | comment Comment
    10/26/07
    Brian Orndorf
    Brian Orndorf
    eFilmCritic.com

    Deftly balances humor and insight.

    Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
    10/23/07
    Dennis Harvey
    Dennis Harvey
    Variety
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    It should be required viewing before going into a supermarket, McDonald's or your very own refrigerator.

    Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
    10/19/07
    Ann Hornaday
    Ann Hornaday
    Washington Post
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    King Corn insists that we recognize the Corn Belt's beauty and intelligence along with its somewhat self-induced plight.

    Full Review Source: Boston Globe | comment Comment
    10/19/07
    Janice Page
    Janice Page
    Boston Globe
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    Aaron Woolf's we-are-what-we-eat documentary King Corn is a lively introduction to the corn industrial complex.

    Full Review Source: Entertainment Weekly | comment Comment
    10/17/07
    Owen Gleiberman
    Owen Gleiberman
    Entertainment Weekly
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    An entertaining look at the flagship of American empty calories, King Corn is a few bushels short of being the next Super-Size Me, but brings a legitimate message.

    Full Review Source: Monsters and Critics | comment Comment
    10/12/07
    Ron Wilkinson
    Ron Wilkinson
    Monsters and Critics

    Well, it's certainly one of the less blatantly compelling subjects on the non-fiction circuit, and the doc has a lower-octane approach than most, but King Corn is surprisingly absorbing and amusing viewing.

    Full Review Source: Reel.com | comment Comment
    10/12/07
    Gary Goldstein
    Gary Goldstein
    Reel.com

    Sometimes obvious, but at other times quite startling.

    Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
    10/12/07
    Eric Monder
    Eric Monder
    Film Journal International

    A deceptively intelligent new entry in the regular-Joe documentary genre.

    Full Review Source: Salon.com | comment Comment
    10/11/07
    Andrew O'Hehir
    Andrew O'Hehir
    Salon.com
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    This is as much a thoughtful meditation on the plight of the American farmer as it is a rant against our expanding waistlines.

    Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment Comment
    10/09/07
    Robert Wilonsky
    Robert Wilonsky
    Village Voice
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