King Corn
2007 · 88 MIN · IMDB 7.0 · 2,105 VOTES · DIR. Aaron Woolf
Overview
King Corn is a fun and crusading journey into the digestive tract of our fast food nation where one ultra-industrial, pesticide-laden, heavily-subsidized commodity dominates the food pyramid from top to bottom – corn. Fueled by curiosity and a dash of naiveté, two college buddies return to their ancestral home of Greene, Iowa to figure out how a modest kernel conquered America. With the help of some real farmers, oodles of fertilizer and government aide, and some genetically modified seeds, the friends manage to grow one acre of corn. Along the way, they unlock the hilarious absurdities and scary but hidden truths about America’s modern food system in this engrossing and eye-opening documentary.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,290 lines
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00:00:09 We're late.
00:03:33 they say sweet, that's going to be a high
00:07:31 Is it always this cold?
00:09:59 right here.
00:12:41 The corn palace was a kind of monument to.
00:15:44 Ray Cheney.
00:19:08 Three fungicides and an insecticide.
00:21:16 Use the brake.
00:25:33 And well, there used to be the Crow place.
00:30:27 Pretty awesome.
00:34:16 So I'm moving back.
00:38:28 Um, it's a raw materials.
00:41:48 Can we order now?
00:44:58 And corn has replaced grass as the principal feed for cattle.
00:48:38 But the reason that it's done, it's...
00:53:35 concrete structure that we have over there.
00:56:33 So 7...
00:59:35 such low prices.
01:03:34 Uh, was born in Methodist Hospital.
01:06:20 remain undiagnosed.
01:09:17 calories in the French fries come from the fat that
01:12:23 It looks like we may lose money growing and
01:15:51 And about a year we've spent growing an acre of corn.
01:18:48 generation in history.