Consumed
Consumed
| 01 June 2015 (USA)
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When Sophie's son, Garrett, develops a mysterious illness, she embarks on a search for answers. This leads her into the controversial world of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) where a sociopolitical battle rages between organic farmers and big biotech corporations. As her desperation grows, so too does her quest for knowledge. And the deeper she goes, a more heightened sense of danger develops that preys on her state of mind, as she attempts to discover the root cause of her son's illness.

Reviews
Cathardincu Surprisingly incoherent and boring
Softwing Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??
CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.
Edwin The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.
Michael Ledo Sophie (Zoe Lister-Jones) is a waitress working at Charley's studying business communication . Along with the help of her mom (Beth Grant) she struggles to raise her son Garret (Nick Wilkin) who has recently developed a skin rash of unknown origin. Sophie goes on line and discovers that it must be the genetically modified food (most likely just one specific food and not just anything modified). This allows us to expose the real life practices of companies such as Monsanto or "Clonestra" in this case.The film in itself was not a true story but was created by piecing together real events. The plus side of genetically modified foods is mentioned briefly in a sales pitch, although there is more such as the changing environment and stronger diseases requiring sturdier plants. Zoe Lister-Jones nails it as a concerned mom fighting her own demons, although we are left hanging about the son. The tie-in to Danny Glover as an organic farmer added the issue of cross contamination and harassment. When they introduced Serge (Kunal Nayyar) as an Indian researcher in order to highlight third world practices, it stretched the film's credibility. This should have been background material.The current fight for the group that made the film is to force companies to label GMOs beyond tomatoes.Guide:F-words. No sex or nudity.
William May As someone who makes a lot of short films myself, I can say this is top notch with the budget they had to work with. As for the actual film, most films like this are documentaries, and I appreciate seeing it presented as an actual film. The documentaries exposing GMOs are great for facts, and this film manages to provide facts along with story. However, I do have a problem with the ending. I'm sorry, but no matter how you slice it I have zero sympathy for biotech CEOs, as they, in real life, don't care about their products. As someone with several pro-gmo "freinds", I can tell you they either fake support my decisions or they take a hard stance on it and refuse to look for any information, or only look at biotech funded "non-profits", the very pro-gmo US government, or universities like Cornell that receive heavy funding from biotech companies. Would give it a 10 if the CEO wasn't made into a sympathetic character, but still a great film.
syedareshma Wow, It was such an amazing and eye opening movie. After watching the movie, I cringed at the food we are eating.. I still don't understand how such an awesome movie can have 4.5/10 on IMDb.. May be Monstanto's GMO cops onto you too? To mislead people into not watching this movie? I think everyone should boycott GMO foods. That is the only way I see GMO companies go out of business. Or else they will keep screwing with all the organic food farmers until there is no trace of organic food left. I read a couple of food blogs also complaining that the movie has false information. But if 75% of the information shown in the movie translates to facts in our life, then you know you cannot doubt the rest of 25% too right? Probably GMO cops trying to discourage people from watching the movie by giving it bad reviews?
catchahealthyhabit The first non documentary that tackles the hot topic of GMO's. The film does a very good job of setting the viewer up who knows little about GMO coming in. I thought the films asked the question "why are there no labels on food that contain gmo's". Simple question that many countries do not have because they label. With Vermont's law taken effect on July 1st it appears that companies are crumbling to the pressure and gmo labels will appear throughout the 50 States. Consumed tells many other stories within the movie, that help explain why GMO's are being thrust upon the American consumer with little science to back up their role. This movie really showed the under belly of how these companies operate to hold down the truth. Connecticut and many other states have labeling laws in effect and this film will help the rest of the population understand why labeling is so important.