![]() ![]() Titled, tongue planted firmly in cheek, "Super Size Me," his documentary was a surprise hit at Sundance last week, winning Spurlock the Best Director prize in the documentary competition and drawing comparisons to the work of "Bowling for Columbine" auteur Michael Moore. One year, thousands of fries and tens of thousands of calories later, Spurlock has an award-winning film in the can. It was at that precise moment that Spurlock, who runs his own production company, says "the bells went off." He decided to make a documentary-his first feature-length film-in which he would, in an attempt to explore why Americans are so fat, eat at McDonald's three times a day for 30 solid days. At one point in the report, recalls Spurlock, a representative for the fast-food chain claimed its food was, in fact, nutritious. On the news was a report about two girls in New York who were suing McDonald's because, they claimed, the food made them overweight and sick. After gorging himself on Thanksgiving dinner in 2002, Morgan Spurlock was watching TV with his belt unbuckled and his pants unzipped. Sometimes inspiration strikes in the unlikeliest places. ![]()
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