Bite Size (2014)
Change happens one bite at a time
ジャンル : ドキュメンタリー
上映時間 : 1時間 20分
演出 : Corbin Billings
シノプシス
"Bite Size" follows the year long journey of four children struggling with obesity.
Morgan Spurlock subjects himself to a diet based only on McDonald's fast food three times a day for thirty days without exercising to try to prove why so many Americans are fat or obese. He submits himself to a complete check-up by three doctors, comparing his weight along the way, resulting in a scary conclusion.
Fed Up blows the lid off everything we thought we knew about food and weight loss, revealing a 30-year campaign by the food industry, aided by the U.S. government, to mislead and confuse the American public, resulting in one of the largest health epidemics in history.
アイオワ州エンドーラ。生まれてから24年、この退屈な町を出たことがない青年ギルバートは、知的障害を持つ弟アーニー、過食症を病む250kgの母親、2人の姉妹の面倒を見ている。毎日を生きるだけで精一杯のギルバートの前に、ある日トレーラー・ハウスで祖母と旅を続ける少女ベッキーが現れる。ベッキーの出現によりギルバートの疲弊した心にも少しずつ変化が起こっていく。
To test its top-secret Human Hibernation Project, the Pentagon picks the most average Americans it can find - an Army private and a prostitute - and sends them to the year 2505 after a series of freak events. But when they arrive, they find a civilization so dumbed-down that they're the smartest people around.
Peter LaFleur(Vince Vaughn)は、アベレージジョーのジムのオーナーです。 ジムの顧客はまばらで、スティーブ「海賊」、彼は海賊だと思う男が含まれています。 ジャスティン・レッドマン、彼女の可能性から光年離れているチアリーダーを感動させることを夢見ているscせた少年。 肥満のスポーツファン、ゴードンピブ。 オーウェン、多くのライトのない若い男。 そして、ドワイト・バウムガルテンは、全く手がかりを持たない独善的な知識人です。 ピーターの謙虚なジムは、スポーツスターであり、フィットネスのきらめく寺院であるジムグローブのエゴセントリックなオーナーであるホワイトグッドマン(ベンスティラー)に見られています。
ウォールストリートで働く金融マンのロックハートが役員に呼び出されて会議室に向かうと、社長のロバート・E・ペンブロークからの「会社には戻らない」と書かれた手紙を見せられ、実際に休暇から戻ってきていないことを知らされる。ロックハートの不正に気付いている役員たちは彼に圧力をかけ、スイスの療養所まで迎えに行くよう命じた。 ロックハートが療養所に到着すると既に面会時間を過ぎていたものの、責任者と交渉して夜には会えるように取り計らってもらう。ロックハートは一旦ホテルに向かうため療養所から離れるが、途中でタクシーが鹿に激突して大事故になってしまう。
ニューヨークの夜を走るひとりのタクシードライバーを主人公に、現代都市に潜む狂気と混乱を描き出した、監督マーティン・スコセッシ×主演ロバート・デ・ニーロの、アメリカン・ニューシネマの傑作。ベトナム帰りの青年トラヴィス・ビックルは夜の街をタクシーで流しながら、世界の不浄さに苛立ちを感じていた。大統領候補の選挙事務所に勤めるベッツィと親しくなるトラヴィスだったが、彼女をポルノ映画館に誘ったことで絶交されてしまう。やがて、闇ルートから銃を手に入れたトラヴィスは自己鍛錬を始めるが、そんな彼の胸中にひとつの計画が沸き上がる……。
Filmmaker Kip Andersen uncovers the secret to preventing and even reversing chronic diseases, and he investigates why the nation's leading health organizations doesn't want people to know about it.
After taking his dying father's advice, Hal dates only the embodiments of female physical perfection. But that all changes after Hal has an unexpected run-in with self-help guru Tony Robbins. Intrigued by Hal's shallowness, Robbins hypnotizes him into seeing the beauty that exists even in the least physically appealing women. Hal soon falls for Rosemary, but he doesn't realize that his gorgeous girlfriend is actually a 300-pound-not-so-hottie.
From the UFC Octagon in Las Vegas and the anthropology lab at Dartmouth, to a strongman gym in Berlin and the bushlands of Zimbabwe, the world is introduced to elite athletes, special ops soldiers, visionary scientists, cultural icons, and everyday heroes—each on a mission to create a seismic shift in the way we eat and live.
"The Perfect Human Diet" is an unprecedented global exploration to find a solution to our epidemic of overweight obesity and diet-related disease - the #1 killer in America. The film bypasses current dietary group-think by exploring modern dietary science, previous historical findings, ancestral native diets and the emerging field of human dietary evolution; revealing for the first time, the authentic human diet. Film audiences finally have the opportunity to see what our species really needs for optimal health and are introduced to a practical template based on these breakthrough scientific facts.
Leading health experts examine the history of the U.S. Dietary Guidelines and question decades of dietary advice insisting that saturated fats are bad for us.
Convenience and video store clerks Dante and Randal are sharp-witted, potty-mouthed and bored out of their minds. So in between needling customers, the counter jockeys play hockey on the roof, visit a funeral home and deal with their love lives.
When young Joshua learns that he will be going on vacation with his family to a small town called Nilbog, he protests adamantly. He is warned by the spirit of his deceased grandfather that goblins populate the town. His parents, Michael and Diana, dismiss his apprehensions, but soon learn to appreciate their son's warnings. Guided by his grandfather's ghost, will Joshua and his family stand a chance in fighting off these evil beings?
コニー・アイランドの寂れた海岸。古いアパートに住む孤独な未亡人サラは、ある日、大好きなTVのクイズ番組から出演依頼の電話を受け、ダイエットを決意する。一方その一人息子ハリーと恋人マリオンのもとに、友人のタイロンが麻薬密売の話を持ちかける。一時はそれぞれに人生がうまく回り始めたかに思えたのだが……。
Nola Devlin is an unassuming, frumpy magazine editor who is overlooked and teased by her coworkers. Though, when she is behind the glow and anonymity of her computer screen, she becomes the famous advice columnist Belinda Apple. Nola’s friends, tired of being overworked and overweight, band together to create the Cinderella Pact, vowing to lose pounds by following the advice of Belinda Apple. When her secret identity is threatened, Nola is forced to take her own alter ego’s advice. But, as the group of friends drops dress sizes, their real issues are exposed, and better-than-expected life changes begin to blossom.
Nick Naylor is a charismatic spin-doctor for Big Tobacco who'll fight to protect America's right to smoke -- even if it kills him -- while still remaining a role model for his 12-year old son. When he incurs the wrath of a senator bent on snuffing out cigarettes, Nick's powers of "filtering the truth" will be put to the test.
100 pounds overweight, loaded up on steroids and suffering from a debilitating autoimmune disease, Joe Cross is at the end of his rope and the end of his hope. In the mirror he saw a 310lb man whose gut was bigger than a beach ball and a path laid out before him that wouldn't end well— with one foot already in the grave, the other wasn't far behind. FAT, SICK & NEARLY DEAD is an inspiring film that chronicles Joe's personal mission to regain his health.
Animated character Fat Albert emerges from his TV universe into the real world, accompanied by his friends Rudy, Mushmouth, Old Weird Harold and Dumb Donald. Though the gang is flabbergasted by the modern world, they make new friends, and Albert attempts to help young Doris become popular. But things get complicated when Albert falls for her older sister, Lauri, and must turn to creator Bill Cosby for advice.
The investigation and exposure of the US sugar industry’s systematic hijacking of scientific study to bury evidence that sugar is—in fact—toxic.