Curt Ellis, Curtis Ellis, Ian Cheney
Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the east coast, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and...( read more
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DVD Release Date: April 29, 2008
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September 26, 2009Any documentary that has stop and go animation with fischer price and corn kernals is a good one in my book. I guess you hear 'high fructose corn syrup' in everything you eat, but I never really thought about what it was. You eat pretty much nothing but corn if you eat what mos...( read more)
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August 16, 2009A very informative movie about where corn comes from, its potential, its uses and its dangers. It is quite dry and can be slow at sometimes, But the subject matter behind it and the fact that these two boys did it by themselves is quite remarkable.
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June 12, 2009This is a kinda slow documentary,however its kinda frightening to find out that corn is in absolutely everything we are consuming.I mean EVERYTHING!!!
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May 21, 2009amusing and sickening at the same time...an OK doc by freshman filmmakers Curtis Ellis and Ian Cheney. I didn't learn anything particularly new (well maybe a couple random things here and there...like the details the way govt opened up corn production in the US), but it's a sober...( read more)
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April 23, 2009Everything you ever wanted to know about corn...yep. How and why it's produced, what it's used for and in (basically everything to some extent) and how all that corn we digest effects our bodies and our health in general.
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