B0002OXVBO

043396085435

2004

2004-06-11

100

1h 40min

Nominated for 1 Oscar, 7 wins & 13 nominations total

Morgan Spurlock

Morgan Spurlock

Morgan Spurlock, Daryl Isaacs, Chemeeka Walker

Joe Morley, David Pederson, Morgan Spurlock, Heather Winters

Steve Horowitz

Scott Ambrozy

Stela Georgieva, Julie Bob Lombardi

Joe the Artist, Joe Guillette

Michael Jackman

Ron English, George Georgiev, Nikolai Lukianov, Kalin Stoyanov, Ivailo Tonchev, Svetoslav Tonchev

Martin Czembor, Hans ten Broeke, David Alvarez Zerpa

Haven Cousins, Nikolai Lukianov, Kalin Stoyanov, Jonah Tobias, Ivailo Tonchev, Svetoslav Tonchev

Tracy Boulian, Avi Gerver, Ed Kosmicki, Julie Bob Lombardi, Julie Soefer, Morgan Spurlock

Svilen Dimitrov, George Georgiev, Goran Kissiov, Anna Slavkova, Kalin Stoyanov, Ivailo Tonchev, Svetoslav Tonchev

Haven Cousins, Thomas Edmon, Jim Finn, William Zoe Fitzgerald, Gwen Fry, Wayne Goldblatt, Grant Goodman, Richard Haylock, Laura Heckman, Abbi Jutkowitz, Corey Michael Lincoln, Alexander Livingston, Mick O'Conner, Olivia Relova, Frank Tartaglia, Ben Vaughn, Matt Woo, Charles Herzfeld

Jim Black, Folkfoot, Michael Parrish

Jim Armstrong, Tanya Assova, Albert Bramante, Paul Brennan, Wayne Cheng, Joseph De Vito, Winston Emano, Kathy England, Erin Sabra Fuchs, Dena Goldstein, Jillian Gumbel, Erin Heidenreich, Jeff Hill, Paul Kim, Robert Luttrell, Stuart Macphee, David Magdael, Matthew McMurdo, Paulina Merekiova, Jackie Moldawer, Neil Murphy, Sean O'Connell, Zeke O'Donnell, Regina Pepe, Michelle Pettit, Holly Ricci, John Robbins, Rainier Rodriguez, Kate Schmitz, Ron Serfass, John Sloss, Phyllis Spurlock, Jessica Uzzan, Steven W. Wallace, Kiril Yanakiev

Nicolette Aizenberg, Angela, Shani Ankori, Anne, Heather Arcovitch, Dennis T. Avery, Michael Badami, Kara Baker, Barbara, Stefane Barbeau, Bob Baugher, Myra Baugher, Lisa Bentley, Charles Bernstein, Ann J. Boehme, Patricia Boussie, Josh Braun, Greg Bretthauer, Christine M. Brinic, Andrew C. Briscoe III, Shirley Brown, Shannon Brownlee, Charlie, Brenda Cheung, Stephanie Childs, Howard Cohen, Gayle Converse, John Cooper, Liest Copland, Greg Critser, Eric d'Arbeloff, Lisa Davis, Robert Davis, Nick Desecare, Ben Durrell, Stephanie Durrell, Edna, Ella, Bill Fair, Tom Fenton, Mark Fernandez, Denny Finnearty, Shari Frilot, Laura A. Frnka, Michael Fung, William Fung, Vivian Galainena, Carole Garcia, Melissa Georges, Geoffry Gilmore, Andrew Glazier, Marnie Glickman, Gloria, Mary Gorske, Meyer Gottlieb, Lance Gould, Micah Green, Trevor Groth, Erin Heidenrich, Judith Hoetker, Sam Hollander, Ana Homayoun, Dawn Jackson, Jose, Stephen L. Joseph, Francine Kaufman, Ben Kelley, Marla Kennedy, Steven Kidd, Kim Kimble, Jennifer Konawal, Hank Lau, Scott Lau, Phil Lempert, Steve Levy, Caroline Libresco, Gene Licht, Sandy Linn, Michael R. Lisowski, Matt Littin, Michael Lott, Michael Lubin, Miriam Mandelbaum, Gia Melissa Marciano, Mark, David Martosko, Tom McEntee, Charlotte McManus, Ryan McManus, Megan, David J. Mendel, Scott Merville, James Mihaliak, R.J. Millard, Mac Moore, Sue Moore, Gary Nichols, James Nutting, Nicholas Nutting, Dana O'Keefe, Pat, Rita Pederson, Monica Poitras, Doug Ray, Queenie Reda, Mick Reed, Dan Reilly, Rebekah Sale, Tom Schember, Eric Schlosser, David Schommer, Jeremy Scott, Chris Sell, Francis Sheehan, Jonny Sheehan, Craig Siegel, Delilah Siegel, Naomi Siegel, Michael Silberman, Chuckie Simon, Elizabeth H. Singer, Duane Smith, Priscilla Sommer, Lena Spengren, Yvonne Spengren, Austin Spurlock, Bailey Spurlock, Barry Spurlock, Ben G. Spurlock, Buffy Spurlock, Caitlin Spurlock, Carolyn Spurlock, Craig Spurlock, Kelsey Spurlock, Phyllis Spurlock, Piper Spurlock, Tootie Spurlock, Allen Steadham, Shannon Stember, Sylvia, Jordi Valdes, Burl Valentine, Kathleen Valentine, Eric Wattenberg, Becky Wiley, Susan Yanovski, Lisa Young

Documentary

The Con, Kathbur Pictures, Studio On Hudson

USA

English

PG-13

7.2

108794

73

Super Size Me is a 2004 American documentary film directed by and starring Morgan Spurlock, an American independent filmmaker. Spurlock s film follows a 30-day period from February 1 to March 2, 2003, during which he ate only McDonald s food. The film documents the drastic effect on Spurlock s physical and psychological health and well-being. It also explores the fast food industry s corporate influence, including how it encourages poor nutrition for its own profit and gain.

Spurlock ate at McDonald s restaurants three times per day, eating every item on the chain s menu at least once. Spurlock consumed an average of 20.9 megajoules or 5,000 kcal (the equivalent of 9.26 Big Macs) per day during the experiment. And he walked about 2 kilometers (1.5 miles) a day. An intake of around 2,500 kcal within a healthy balanced diet is more generally recommended for a man to maintain his weight. As a result, the then-32-year-old Spurlock gained 24.5 pounds (11.1 kg), a 13% body mass increase, increased his cholesterol to 230 mg/dL (6.0 mmol/L), and experienced mood swings, sexual dysfunction, and fat accumulation in his liver. It took Spurlock fourteen months to lose all the weight gained from his experiment using a vegan diet supervised by his then-girlfriend, a chef who specializes in gourmet vegan dishes.

The reason for Spurlock s investigation was the increasing spread of obesity throughout U.S. society, which the Surgeon General has declared an epidemic , and the corresponding lawsuit brought against McDonald s on behalf of two overweight girls, who, it was alleged, became obese as a result of eating McDonald s food (Pelman v. McDonald s Corp., 237 F. Supp. 2d 512). Spurlock argued that, although the lawsuit against McDonald s failed (and subsequently many state legislatures have legislated against product liability actions against producers and distributors of fast food ) as well as the McLibel case, much of the same criticism leveled against the tobacco companies applies to fast food franchises whose product is both physiologically addictive and physically harmful.

The documentary was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature and won Best Documentary Screenplay from the Writers Guild of America. A comic book related to the movie has been made with Dark Horse Comics as the publisher containing stories based on numerous cases of fast food health scares.

Spurlock released a sequel, Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken!, in 2017.

$65,000 (estimated)

$516,641

$11,536,423

$20,645,757

Overeating,fast food,experiment,mcdonald's restaurant,nutrition