King Corn (2007) March 26, 2008

'King Corn' is a lively and eye-opening documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. In this colorful, and often extremely funny look at what we are swallowing, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the east coast, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America's most-productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat-and how we farm. Ian Cheney is a star and co-producer of 'King Corn.'