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  • 2015
  • Not Rated
  • 1 h 24 m
  • 2015
  • Not Rated
  • 1 h 24 m

Summary At a popular bakery café, residents of New York’s Upper East Side get bagels and coffee served with a smile 24 hours a day. But behind the scenes, undocumented immigrant workers face sub-legal wages, dangerous machinery, and abusive managers who will fire them for calling in sick. Mild-mannered sandwich maker Mahoma López has never been ...

Directed By: Robin Blotnick, Rachel Lears

Written By: Robin Blotnick, Rachel Lears

  • 2015
  • Not Rated
  • 1 h 24 m
  • 2015
  • Not Rated
  • 1 h 24 m

The Hand That Feeds

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Summary At a popular bakery café, residents of New York’s Upper East Side get bagels and coffee served with a smile 24 hours a day. But behind the scenes, undocumented immigrant workers face sub-legal wages, dangerous machinery, and abusive managers who will fire them for calling in sick. Mild-mannered sandwich maker Mahoma López has never been ...

Directed By: Robin Blotnick, Rachel Lears

Written By: Robin Blotnick, Rachel Lears

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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14% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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14% Negative
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75
Apr 15, 2015
Throughout, in an approach that gets close to the workers, activists, and more who help the staff at Hot And Crusty, Blotnick and Lears excellently merge the personal and political, but in a manner that never feels like it's proselytizing.
By Kevin Jagernauth FULL REVIEW
75
Apr 3, 2015
It has a beautiful, low-key approach that earns its cheers and tears without resorting to the manipulative or dramatic tricks of a typical feature film.
By Odie Henderson FULL REVIEW
70
Apr 2, 2015
The Hand That Feeds is an effective portrayal of the intricacies of activism — and of a situation in which victories seem all too brief.
By Ben Kenigsberg FULL REVIEW
70
Apr 1, 2015
López is a singularly tender, compelling, and articulate campaigner in this high-stakes struggle for justice, filmed with the urgency and suspense of a Hitchcock thriller.
By Diana Clarke FULL REVIEW
70
Apr 1, 2015
The film provides a vivid reminder that even undocumented workers deserve fair compensation from their employers.
By Frank Scheck FULL REVIEW
70
Apr 1, 2015
By building the documentary around an ensemble cast, Lears and Blotnick demonstrate, in terms of content as well as filmmaking, that the voices of a few can galvanize the voices of many.
By Jen Chaney FULL REVIEW
30
Apr 9, 2015
Unfortunately, directors Rachel Lears and Robin Blotnick have squandered a worthy subject.
By Martin Tsai FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Jubilee Films
Release Date Apr 3, 2015
Duration 1 h 24 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website http://jubileefilms.org/
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Awards

DOC NYC
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Full Frame Documentary Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Sidewalk Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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