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Fries with that? Richard Linklater serves up some attitude in his best movie yet.

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Among the most biting and bitter moments in a movie chockfull of them is a scene that comes early on in Richard Linklater's Fast Food Nation, a fictionalized adaptation of Erie Schlosser's nonfiction best-seller about our national obsession with hamburgers, french fries, and eminently disposable calories. A marketing executive named Don Henderson (Greg Kinnear), who works for a McDonald's-like fast-food chain called Mickey's, has just been asked by his boss (Frank Ertl) to travel to Colorado to find out how fecal matter found its way into the company's hamburger patties. Don is new to the job and doesn't quite know what's expected of him: Do the head honchos at Mickey's really want to know how their meat gets processed? Or do they just want a corporate spin job? He expresses these worries to his wife (Dana Wheeler-Nicholson), who tries her best to be supportive. But really, she's only half listening. Because at the same time, she's also busy surfing the Internet, clicking her way through Overstock.com. The Web site is presently having a sale on high-thread-count...

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