Filmmaker Stephanie Soechtig and journalist Katie Couric investigate how the American food industry may be responsible for more sickness than previously realized.
Release Date: May 9th, 2014
DVD Release Date: September 9th, 2014
PG |1 hr 32 min
Plot SummaryFilmmaker Stephanie Soechtig and journalist Katie Couric investigate how the American food industry may be responsible for more sickness than previously realized.
Cast: Katie Couric, Bill Clinton, Michael Bloomberg
Director: Stephanie Soechtig
Genres: Documentary
Snappy graphics channel the info flow like a sugar rush. Scary music cues are overused. Narrator Katie Couric wisely stays offscreen. That keeps Fed Up from feeling like an Oprah special. show more
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In a move sure to infuriate “nanny state” critics, director Stephanie Soechtig names the US government and food corporations responsible for a campaign to get Americans addicted to junk food — particularly, and most dangerously, sugar — as early as possible. show more
