![]() ![]() Each plate is piled high with hot dogs, and in a few moments, these brave people will shovel as many as they can down their throats, for a chance to compete at what may be the Super Bowl, Olympics, and World Cup of competitive eating, all wrapped up in one bun - the annual Nathan's Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest, in New York's Coney Island.Īt the D.C. On a sunny June weekend on Washington, D.C.'s National Mall, nine contestants sidle up to a table full of paper plates. In a country amid a 'war against drugs' this is a powerful film which could do more to turn kids away from drugs than any measly government "task-force" or classroom lecture.The celebratory hot dogs await their impending doom. ![]() The ending was truly the most frightening thing I have ever seen in film- forget the cheap scares of The Exorcist, Psycho and the endless bile of the 'slasher flick', this stuff is REAL. This movie is by no means flawless, but then again I would like to hope that the flaws add to the gritty reality of the film. I've never left a film shaking or feeling physically ill- not including Pearl Harbour, of course :) You want to look away, but cannot. As the addictions plunged further into the depths of Hell, I felt myself more and more arrested by the film. ![]() Thank goodness too, rather than challenge my brain (not hard to do unfortunately) this film went straight for the heart, ripped it out and kicked it around the floor for 90 minutes. Often hype about films lead to disappointment and after waiting 14 months after release for my local cinema to show this film, I was done thinking about it. ![]()
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