In Vancouver now showing at Tinseltown and 5th Avenue Theatres!

Looking for an entertaining way to show your friends and family members why you care about animals and the way that they are raised and killed for meat? How about taking them with you to the cinema this Friday night to see Fast Food Nation? Oscar-nominated writer-director Richard Linklater—whose résumé includes Dazed and Confused, Before Sunset, School of Rock, and A Scanner Darkly—has assembled an all-star cast that includes Greg Kinnear, Ethan Hawke, Patricia Arquette, Wilmer Valderrama, Esai Morales, and Paul Dano as he explores the dark side of the fast-food industry. The premise: After Mickey’s (the fictional fast-food restaurant in the movie) launches a successful new burger, its CEO finds out about the patties’ high fecal content, which threatens to derail the business if people get sick. Mickey’s new marketing executive, Don Henderson (Kinnear), sets off to find out how the poop is getting in the meat. Along the way, he discovers a world of shady dealings, massive health risks, poor treatment of immigrant workers, and horrific animal abuse that lurk behind the scenes of the burgers that he is trying to sell. The movie is dramatic, funny, and, above all, illuminating.
Fast Food Nation is a fictional version of the best-selling book written by Eric Schlosser (who cowrote the screenplay with Linklater); the book caused many people to stop eating meat. The movie brings the reality of the meat industry—as exposed in Schlosser’s book—to the big screen and millions of viewers worldwide in a way that no other film has done before.

Please bring your brother, your mother, your best friend, and anyone else you can think of to Fast Food Nation opening weekend, November 17-19. The more people who go and buy tickets to the film opening weekend, the stronger that the message will be to the movie industry that this is exactly the type of film people want to see. The film will encourage countless people to think twice before they bite into another fast-food meal.

Also visit PETA’s Fast Food Nation Web site to read interviews with the director and cast members and play PETA’s Fast Food Nation interactive game.