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Sweden, Denmark, Germany · 2011
1h 30m
Director Fredrik Gertten
Starring
Genre Documentary
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In 2009, Fredrik Gertten directed Bananas!*, a documentary about a lawsuit filed against Dole Food Company. The film outlined banana plantation workers' allegations of exploitation and harmful pesticide use. Dole was quick to retaliate, attempting to block the release of the film and suing Gertten for defamation. Big Boys Gone Bananas!* is the story of Gertten’s fight against Dole for the rights to show his original film.
Detailing his efforts to distribute Bananas!*, his 2009 exposé on Dole's use of toxic chemicals in Nicaragua, Swedish documentarian Fredrik Gertten's latest plays as an occasionally fascinating, if ultimately reductive, showdown between First Amendment rights and corporate power.
The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis
Documenting the vigorous strategies employed by the Dole Food Company to block the release of his 2009 film "Bananas!" - about a lawsuit brought by Nicaraguan workers who suspected the company's use of dangerous pesticides - the Swedish filmmaker Fredrik Gertten gains traction by taking the high road.
The Hollywood Reporter by John DeFore
While Big Boys addresses the extent to which journalists (particularly in the U.S., Gertten believes) too readily accept the claims of powerful entities, the film misses the opportunity to explore this issue in a more universal way.
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