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| Morgan Spurlock | ... | Himself | |
| Daryl Isaacs | ... | Himself (as Daryl M. Isaacs MD Internal Medicine) | |
| Lisa Ganjhu | ... | Herself (as Lisa Ganjhu D.O. Gastroenterologist & Hepatologist) | |
| Stephen Siegel | ... | Himself (as Steven Siegel MD FACC Cardiologist) | |
| Bridget Bennett | ... | Herself (as Bridget Bennett R.D.) | |
| Eric Rowley | ... | Himself, exercise physiologist | |
| Mark Fenton | ... | Himself, former editor, Walking | |
| Alexandra Jamieson | ... | Herself - Morgan's Girlfriend (as Healthy Chef Alex) | |
| John Banzhaf | ... | Himself - lawyer (as John F. Banzhaf III) | |
| David Satcher | ... | Himself - former Health Minister (as Dr. David Satcher) | |
| Lisa Young | ... | Herself - nutrition professor (as Dr. Lisa Young) | |
| Kelly Brownell | ... | Himself | |
| Jacob Sullum | ... | Himself - journalist | |
| Tommy Thompson | ... | Himself - US Secretary of Health | |
| William J. Klish | ... | Himself - medicine doctor (as William Klish) | |
| Jared Fogle | ... | Himself - spokesman for Subway | |
| John Robbins | ... | Himself - journalist and writer | |
| Don Gorske | ... | Himself - hearty eater of big macs | |
| Mary Gorske | ... | Herself - Don's wife | |
| Ron English | ... | Himself - painter | |
| Margo Wootan | ... | Herself (as Dr. Margo Wootan) | |
| Marion Nestle | ... | Herself | |
| Barbara Brown | ... | Herself - SODEXHO executive | |
| Kay Glover | ... | Herself, head cook | |
| Greg Bretthauer | ... | Himself, dean | |
| Debra Larson | ... | Herself, school social worker | |
| Paul Stitt | ... | Himself (voice) | |
| Marlene Canter | ... | Herself | |
| Gene Grabowski | ... | Himself - GMA deputy CEO | |
| Phil Lawler | ... | Himself, phys ed instructor | |
| Brian Philips | ... | Himself - physical training instructor | |
| Gerald N. Tirozzi | ... | Himself | |
| Neal Barnard | ... | Himself | |
| Catherine Schilcher | ... | Herself, nutritionist (voice) | |
| Bruce Howlett | ... | Himself - fat patient | |
| Adam Naaman | ... | Himself | |
| Carl Geisler | ... | Himself - surgeon | |
| Lisa Howard | ... | Herself, McDonald's spokesman (voice) | |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Mary Bollino | ... | Herself - Naperville High School restaurant supervisor | |
| Caitlin | ... | Herself - waitress for McDonald's | |
| Samuel Hirsch | ... | Himself - lawyer | |
| Tammy Howlett | ... | Bruce's wife | |
| Michael Jordan | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Ronald McDonald | ... | Himself (archive footage) | |
| Ashley Sandy | ... | Herself | |
| Kacie Sandy | ... | Herself | |
| Laura Sandy | ... | Herself | |
| Kymme Simchak | ... | Herself | |
| Britney Spears | ... | Herself (archive footage) | |
Directed by | |||
| Morgan Spurlock | |||
Writing credits(in alphabetical order) | ||
| Morgan Spurlock | written by | |
Produced by | |||
| Joe Morley | .... | executive producer | |
| Dave Pederson | .... | associate producer | |
| David Pederson | .... | associate producer | |
| Morgan Spurlock | .... | producer | |
| Heather M. Winters | .... | executive producer | |
Cinematography by | |||
| Scott Ambrozy | (director of photography) | ||
Film Editing by | |||
| Stela Georgieva | |||
| Julie Bob Lombardi | |||
Art Direction by | |||
| Joe the Artist | |||
Production Management | |||
| Michael Jackman | .... | post-production supervisor | |
| Stuart Macphee | .... | post-production supervisor | |
Art Department | |||
| Ron English | .... | McPaintings | |
Sound Department | |||
| Martin Czembor | .... | sound engineer | |
| Hans ten Broeke | .... | sound designer | |
Visual Effects by | |||
| Robert Luttrell | .... | digital film transfer supervisor | |
| Jonah Tobias | .... | digital artist | |
Camera and Electrical Department | |||
| Tracy Boulian | .... | camera operator | |
| Avi Gerver | .... | camera operator | |
| Julie Bob Lombardi | .... | additional video footage | |
| Julie Soefer | .... | camera operator | |
| Morgan Spurlock | .... | additional video footage | |
Animation Department | |||
| Svilen Dimitrov | .... | animator | |
| George Georgiev | .... | animation liaison: US | |
| Goran Kissiov | .... | supervising animator | |
| Nikolai Lukianov | .... | animation project manager: Zographic | |
| Paulina Merekiova | .... | assistant project manager: Zographic | |
| Kalin Stoyanov | .... | animator | |
| Ivailo Tonchev | .... | animator | |
| Svetoslav Tonchev | .... | animator | |
| Kiril Yanakiev | .... | supervising animator | |
| Kiril Yanakiev | .... | technical director: Zographic | |
Editorial Department | |||
| Haven Cousins | .... | colorist | |
| Thomas Edmon | .... | digital intermediate supervisor (as Tom Edmon) | |
| Jim Finn | .... | negative cutter | |
| Gwen Fry | .... | high definition transfer | |
| Grant Goodman | .... | assistant editor | |
| Richard Haylock | .... | on-line editor | |
| Abbi Jutkowitz | .... | assistant editor | |
| Corey Lincoln | .... | post-production assistant | |
| Alexander Livingston | .... | post-production assistant | |
| Robert Luttrell | .... | digital intermediate supervisor | |
| Mick O'Conner | .... | high definition transfer | |
| Olivia Relova | .... | assistant editor | |
| Ben Vaughn | .... | high definition transfer | |
| Matt Woo | .... | on-line editor | |
Music Department | |||
| Jim Black | .... | music consultant | |
| Folkfoot | .... | composer: additional music | |
Other crew | |||
| Albert Bramante | .... | research assistant | |
| Sean Connell | .... | creative consultant | |
| Joseph De Vito | .... | creative consultant | |
| Winston Emano | .... | publicist | |
| David Magdael | .... | publicist | |
| Steven Wallace | .... | publicist | |
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Morgan Spurlock undoubtedly aspires to follow in the path of Errol Morris, Roger Moore, Joel Sucher and other leading documentarians. A young man with an adoring and beautiful girlfriend, he decided to unmask the evil of fast food and its impact on an increasingly obese America. That Americans eat too much fast food - too much of any kind of food - and eschew exercise is hardly news. But a full-scale documentary examining sloth by the bucket-full focusing on one major commercial phenomenon hasn't been done before.
Spurlock decided to eat at McDonald's and only McDonald's for a full month. That's three meals a day with no other food source. Before launching on what actually was a death-defying trip (literally since for variety he consumed Mickey D's food in Texas, L.A. and a lot of other places) he had a full baseline workup with a cardiologist, a gastroenterologist and an internist who gets more screen time than his medical colleagues-he gravitates between being supportive and alarmist, the latter increasingly the right response to Spurlock's bizarre quest.
Spurlock also has a nutritionist/dietician and a physical trainer to keep tabs on him. The only specialty missing, in retrospective one who might have been useful, was a psychiatrist. His girlfriend, a vegan chef no less, looks forward to the month with a mixture of humor and alarm.
"Supersize Me" has lots of scientific information on the nature of fast food and its impact on an America that eats out more than it dines at home, a change from a past where mom or a wife faithfully prepared most meals. Nutritionists decry the change in our culture, educators point out the impact of fast food in school cafeterias on kids' health, a former Surgeon General gravely decries the menace and the usual person-on-the-street suspects shock viewers by their bumbling inability to define such terms as "calories." A food industry spokesman is blithely unaware that he is being set up to look like an ass. And, of course, there are multiple shots of Spurlock vainly connecting with polite drones at McDonald's HQ seeking an interview which never comes. Does this all sound familiar?
Spurlock's month-long consumption of McDonald's products gets old fast although he and the director try to add some novelty like showing him vomiting after downing a supersized meal. Periodic visits to get his bloods and body checked reveal the insidious impact of a bizarre diet. His puzzled internist tells us several times he's never before seen a liver compromised by a high fat diet.
The problem, though, is that Spurlock is like those laboratory rats who develop arcane tumors after consuming the equivalent of something that no human could ingest in ten lifetimes. His peregrination from one Mc D's to another becomes boring as his health is clearly threatened and he stubbornly refuses medical advice to give it up.
The best part of "Supersize Me" is the well-presented information on schools and fast foods and how a few are resisting the commercial tide that aims junk at kids from kindergarten through high school. Even inmates, we're told, can be well fed at no greater cost than the fat-laden diets these essentially sedentary wards of the state have shoveled at them.
Technically, this is a well-filmed documentary with creative use of multiple images and graphs.
I hope Spurlock has more ideas for documentaries. He's had a lot of time to think about it-an epilogue informs us it took him almost a year to regain his former fitness and health thanks, partially, to his vegan lover's detoxification diet.
Oh, and McDonald's is phasing out supersized meals, a minor withdrawal in a serious public health war.
7/10.