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Super Size Me is a 2004 American documentary film directed by and starring Morgan Spurlock, an American independent filmmaker. Spurlock's film follows a 30-day period from February 1 to March 2, 2003, during which he claimed to consume only McDonald's food , although he later disclosed he was also drinking heavy amounts of alcohol .
The film's title derives from one of the rules of Spurlock's experiment: he would not refuse the "super-size" option whenever it was offered to him but would never ask for it himself. The result, according to Spurlock, was a diet with twice the calories recommended by the USDA. Further, Spurlock attempted to curtail his physical activity to ...
‘Super Size Me’ director has died aged 53. 2005-2015. In the 13 years following the release of Super Size Me, Spurlock made almost 70 documentary films and TV series with his production ...
Morgan Spurlock Matthew Eisman/Getty Images Morgan Spurlock weathered ups and downs prior to his death at age 53. The filmmaker was best known for directing 2004’s Super Size Me, a documentary ...
Morgan Spurlock, a documentary filmmaker who captured his own psychological and physical symptoms from eating McDonald’s every day for a month in the Oscar-nominated 2004 feature “Super Size ...
Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken! is a 2017 American documentary film directed by Morgan Spurlock.A sequel to the 2004 film Super Size Me, it explores ways in which the fast food industry has rebranded itself as healthier since his original film through the process of Spurlock working to open his own fast-food restaurant, thus exposing some of the ways in which rebranding is more perception than ...
Morgan Spurlock, filmmaker best known for 'Super Size Me,' is dead at 53. His fast-food documentary showed the ill effects of 30 days of eating only McDonald's.
The same held true for the 1993 Steven Spielberg film Jurassic Park, when McDonald's introduced their Dino-Sized drink and fry options. [ 4 ] In March 2004, six weeks after the debut of Morgan Spurlock 's heavily critical documentary Super Size Me , [ 5 ] McDonald's announced a plan to phase out the Supersize option, citing needs to simplify ...