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Ian Cheney:
When my best friend Curtis and I graduated from college, we thought we were done with professors and were supposed to feel like we had our whole lives ahead of us. Curt Ellis:
But we just heard some disconcerting news: some day, we were going to die - and maybe sooner than we thought. The first time in American history, our generation was at risk of having a shorter life-span than our parents. And it was because of what we ate
When my best friend Curtis and I graduated from college, we thought we were done with professors and were supposed to feel like we had our whole lives ahead of us. Curt Ellis:
But we just heard some disconcerting news: some day, we were going to die - and maybe sooner than we thought. The first time in American history, our generation was at risk of having a shorter life-span than our parents. And it was because of what we ate
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IAN NARRATING When my best friend Curtis and I
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graduated from college we thought we were done with
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professors
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And we're supposed to feel like we had our whole lives
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ahead of us
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CURT NARRATING But we'd just heard some rather
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disconcerting news
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Some day we were going to die
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And maybe sooner than we thought
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For the first time in American history our generation was at
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risk of having a shorter life span than our parents
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And it was because of what we ate
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Movie Summary
King Corn is a feature documentary about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation. In King Corn, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the east coast, move to the he...