All Jacked Up movie @ Gene Siskel Film Center 6/10 & 6/12

Chicago premiere!
Filmmakers in person!
ALL JACKED UP
2008, Jennifer Mattox, USA, 110 min.

“This is the movie food companies hope you never see.”--Mike Adams, Natural News

The teenage bond with the world of fast food in all its variants is explored in this lively but hard-hitting exposé that brings animation, dramatization, comedy, and the testimony of experts in the fields of nutrition, food science, and psychology into play. Raquel, a binge-purge dieter; Michael, addicted to energy drinks; Danny, strictly a cheeseburger-and-fries eater; and Melissa, an overweight teen with an overwrought schedule, have their eyes opened to the fact that kids are being fatally shortchanged by food they have unwittingly been programmed to crave. DigiBeta video. (BS)

Director/writer Jennifer Mattox and producer/co-writer Doug Clemons will be present for audience discussion at both screenings.