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Unacceptable Levels

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Concerns about his own and his family's health inspire filmmaker Ed Brown to investigate the use of dangerous chemicals and their potential effects on our bodies.

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Bilge Ebiri Spirituality & Health 03/24/2020
The film also possesses a sly, welcome wit. Those stylistic touches, as well as the director's own openness, lend this intriguing documentary a credibility that it otherwise might have lacked. Go to Full Review
Chris Klimek Village Voice 09/24/2013
Novice filmmaker Ed Brown's home-movie-as-op-ed Unacceptable Levels wants to scare the biosolids out of you, and it can, but that doesn't mean it's a success. Go to Full Review
Robert Abele Los Angeles Times 09/13/2013
2/5
The movie is not much of an argument to begin with, since there's very little science yet that can give us answers to Brown's or anybody's hand-wringing. Go to Full Review
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12/09/2014 Very boring, incomplete and pointless waste of the viewer's time. Mr. Brown completely misses one of the largest polluters: the livestock industry. He and his wife are obviously supporters of the Weston Price Foundation, as seen by their numerous interviews with Sally Fallon Morell, its founding president (also founder of A Campaign for Real Milk, a group with books like "Eat Fat, Lose Fat..." written by Fallon & Mary Enig [recently deceased] and other questionable dietary recommendations). On many occasions we see Mrs. Brown cooking up deep-fried flesh, serving up pounds of eggs and many more of the foundation's recommended artery- clogging foods for their family.. Then Mr. Brown constantly complains about his wife's Crohn's disease and his asthma. So which is it: the toxins in their environment, or their diet that's making him and his family sick? Watching this boring film, you get the feeling that Mr. Brown made it in hopes of making money, while showing the viewer nothing more than what most people already know and riding on the coattails of other, pithier documentary filmmakers. Most of the statements made by the spokespersons in the film are either generalities, self-evident or factually incomplete. I think most people will get tired of this self-indulgent piece of junk after just a few minutes. See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis Concerns about his own and his family's health inspire filmmaker Ed Brown to investigate the use of dangerous chemicals and their potential effects on our bodies.
Director
Ed Brown
Producer
Ed Brown, Susan Cann, Victoria Di Iorio, Martin Essig
Screenwriter
Ed Brown
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
English
Runtime
1h 20m