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  • 2012
  • Virgil Films & Entertainment
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2012
  • Virgil Films & Entertainment
  • 1 h 30 m

Summary What is a big corporation capable of doing in order to protect its brand? Recently, Swedish documentary filmmaker Fredrik Gertten experienced this personally. His previous film BANANAS!* recounts the lawsuit that 12 Nicaraguan plantation workers successfully brought against the fruit giant Dole Food Company. That film was selected for ...

Directed By: Fredrik Gertten

  • 2012
  • Virgil Films & Entertainment
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2012
  • Virgil Films & Entertainment
  • 1 h 30 m

Big Boys Gone Bananas!*

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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Summary What is a big corporation capable of doing in order to protect its brand? Recently, Swedish documentary filmmaker Fredrik Gertten experienced this personally. His previous film BANANAS!* recounts the lawsuit that 12 Nicaraguan plantation workers successfully brought against the fruit giant Dole Food Company. That film was selected for ...

Directed By: Fredrik Gertten

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63
Jul 25, 2012
The issue remains that this variety of faux-populism seems better suited to the soapbox than the silver screen.
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60
Aug 5, 2012
The relentlessness of corporate might is disturbing but no surprise; "Big Boys" is, however, an eye-opening look at the way the U.S. media fell lockstep behind Dole's claims.
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Jul 26, 2012
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.
By Jeannette Catsoulis FULL REVIEW
60
Jul 25, 2012
A David-and Goliath story that delves into corporate scare tactics, legal effrontery, brand protection, media manipulation, online propagandizing and craven behavior.
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Jul 31, 2012
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.
By John DeFore FULL REVIEW
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Jul 25, 2012
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.
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Production Company WG Film, Sveriges Television (SVT), Film i Skåne, Pausefilm, Klassefilm, MEDIA Programme of the European Union, Svenska Filminstitutet (SFI), Vrijzinnig Protestantse Radio Omroep (VPRO), Yleisradio (YLE)
Release Date Jul 27, 2012
Duration 1 h 30 m
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Tagline The true story about a Swedish filmmaker, a banana corporation, dirty tricks, lawsuits, manipulation and the price of free speech.
Website https://www.facebook.com/bananasthemovie
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Awards

Sarasota Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Milano International Film Festival Awards (MIFF Awards)
• 1 Nomination

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