Bananas!*

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Swedish filmmaker Fredrik Gertten’s gripping 2009 documentary follows a court case brought by Nicaraguan banana growers who claim the Dole Corporation’s use of banned pesticides caused major health defects. Fans of corporate exposes like CRUDE and ORGASM, INC. and pro-organic food docs like INGREDIENTS and FOOD BEWARE will want to check out BANANAS!* immediately. The film’s content was so incendiary that Dole went to extremely nasty lengths to have it banned, resulting in the 2011 follow-up, BIG BOYS GO BANANAS!*.

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Release Date:	Oct 9, 2009
Running Time:	87 minutes
Country:	Sweden
Language:	Spanish

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BANANAS!* is a suspenseful, layer-peeling, court room drama chronicle contextualized within the global politics of food and First vs. Third world dynamics. Directed by Fredrik Gertten, Sweden’s pre-eminent documentarian and investigative journalist, BANANAS!* focuses on a slippery fact trail and a landmark and highly controversial legal case pitting a dozen Nicaraguan plantation workers against Dole Food Corporation and its alleged usage of a deadly banned pesticide and its probable link to generations of sterilized workers.