R | | Drama, Sport, Thriller | 1 May 2013 (Philippines)
Director: Ramin Bahrani
Writers: Ramin Bahrani, Hallie Elizabeth Newton
Stars: Dennis Quaid, Zac Efron, Kim Dickens |
In this parable Willie Loman meets Monsanto. Henry Whipple (Dennis Quaid) is a flawed Iowa corn farmer and a sales rep for a GMO seed company, under pressure both to expand his territory and to increase his harvest — “go big or die.” Bahrani (Man Push Cart, 2005) addresses timeless themes: fathers and sons, ambition and rebellion, solidarity and self-interest, morality and survival and, ultimately, the death of dreams. The film is an unsettling and introspective take on the influence of economic and social forces on an American everyman.