Super Size Me
The first ever reality-based movie ... everything begins and ends in 30 days!
Super Size Me (2004)
Timing:
1:40 (100 min)
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Country
Production
Genre
Documentary
Budget
$65 000
Revenue
$28 575 078
Director
Actors
Morgan Spurlock, Daryl Isaacs, Lisa Ganjhu, Stephen Siegel, Bridget Bennett, Eric Rowley, Mark Fenton, Alexandra Jamieson, John Banzhaf, David Satcher
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
Producer
Morgan Spurlock, Joe Morley, Heather M. Winters
Operator
Scott Ambrozy
Composer
Artist
Audition
Editing
Stela Georgieva, Julie Bob Lombardi
All team (7)
All team (7)
Short description
Morgan Spurlock subjects himself to a diet based only on McDonald's fast food three times a day for thirty days without exercising to try to prove why so many Americans are fat or obese. He submits himself to a complete check-up by three doctors, comparing his weight along the way, resulting in a scary conclusion.
What's left behind the scenes
- In response to the film, McDonald's Corporation announced its decision to discontinue the Supersize portions – a trademark of the chain – from production and sale in the US by the end of 2004.
- Morgan Spurlock filmed 250 hours of footage. Only approximately 0.66% of the filmed material made it into the final version of the film.
- The idea for the film came to Morgan Spurlock when, after a Thanksgiving dinner at his parents' house, he saw a television report about two teenage girls suing McDonald's for gaining weight.
- The waltz "On the Beautiful Blue Danube" played during the surgical operation is a reference to Stanley Kubrick’s film “2001: A Space Odyssey,” which Spurlock confirms in the DVD audio commentary, stating it is a “small homage to, possibly, his favorite American filmmaker.”
- During filming, while eating only McDonald's, Spurlock gained over 11 kilograms in weight. It subsequently took him 13 months to lose that weight.
- As a reaction to the film, the McDonald’s corporation announced its decision to discontinue the Supersize portions – a trade symbol of the chain – from production and sale in the United States by the end of 2004.
- The waltz “On the Beautiful Blue Danube” playing during the surgical operation is a reference to Stanley Kubrick’s film “2001: A Space Odyssey,” which Sperlock confirms in the DVD audio commentary, stating that it is a “small homage to possibly his favorite American film director.”
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