Forks Over Knives (Blu-ray) PG
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: PG
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: August 30, 2011
- Originally Released: 2010
- Label: Virgil Films
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Directed by | Lee Fulkerson | |
Screenwriting by | Lee Fulkerson | |
Composition by | Ramon Balcazar | |
Hosted by | Joey Aucoin, Junshi Chen, Dr. Neal Barnard, Neal Barnard, Gene Baur, Brantley-Nation, San'Dera, Mac Danzig, McDougall, John M.D., Pamela Popper, Dr. T. Colin Campbell, Caldwell Esselstyn M.D. Jr. & Lisle, Doug Ph.D. |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/5 --
The radical notion at the heart of the acclaimed doc "Forks Over Knives" is that eating animals and animal-produced foods has costs -- on our economy, our health-care system and on ourselves.
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New York Daily News
Rating: 3/4 --
Forks Over Knives is a middling documentary but a magnificent indictment.
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Globe and Mail
Rating: 2/5 --
...irritation at the film's artless repetition shades into worry over its cult-like monomania.
Filmcritic.com
Rating: 2/4 --
As it stands, "Forks" is an interesting and informative health lecture that's sandwiched into a dry, repetitive documentary.
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Washington Post
Rating: 3/4 --
A must-see movie that could have used a sharper edge.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Rating: B- --
Forks over Knives is tasty but somewhat undercooked.
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Detroit News
Rating: 3/4 --
Movies are like food. There are popcorn pictures that entertain you and the spinach movies that are good for you. In more ways than one, Forks Over Knives is a spinach flick.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Product Description:
Documentary filmmaker Lee Fulkerson explores the possibility that so-called "diseases of affluence," such as heart disease, can be reversed by simply adjusting our diets to include less processed and animal-based foods. Back in the 1960s, Cornell University nutritional scientist Dr. T. Colin Campbell was working to find a way to feed the citizens of impoverished Third World nations when a trip to the Philippines forever changed the way he thought about food consumption. There, he discovered that the rates of liver cancer among affluent children who subsisted on diets rich in animal-based foods were notably higher than in children consuming plant-based diets. Meanwhile, surgeon Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, head of the Breast Cancer Task Force at Cleveland Clinic, was also discovering that many of the diseases he was seeing in patients were practically nonexistent in areas of the world where people were primarily consuming plant foods. Several subsequent investigations by the researchers (who would not meet each other until the 1980s), including a groundbreaking study in China by Dr. Campbell, led them to the revelation that a whole-food, plant-based diet could prevent, and even reverse, such degenerative conditions as type 2 diabetes, heart disease, and some forms of cancer. In this film, Fulkerson examines Dr. Campbell's and Dr. Esselstyn's theories by following the two doctors' individual, yet very similar, story arcs, from their farm-based upbringings to their astounding discoveries. The film also records the experiences of a group of patients suffering from chronic maladies as they participate in an experiment in which their diets are substantially altered and wholesome, plant-based food is, essentially, used as medicine.
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