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Overweight Australian filmmaker Joe Cross attempts to wrestle back control of his failing health during a cross-country trek in which he engages everyday Americans in discussions about food and obesity in this lighthearted documentary addressing a deadly serious subject. Clocking in at 310 pounds and pumped full of steroids to battle a debilitating autoimmune disorder, Cross realized that he would soon be dead if he didn't make some major lifestyle changes. But pharmaceuticals were only treating his symptoms, and no doctor seemed capable of providing the long-term care and support it would take to turn his life around. Desperate, Cross loads up his car with a juicer and a generator, and pledges to survive on nothing but fresh fruit and vegetable juice for 60 days. Not long after his journey begins, Cross quickly realizes that he's well on his way to ending his growing dependence on prescription drugs. His body has begun to heal itself, and as the process continues, Cross attempts to prove just how empowering it can be to take responsibility for our own health. (official distributor synopsis)
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Unconvincing from the very first scene. A mini juicer in the car that doesn’t need a thorough wash to stop the pulp rotting in it? You can tell that the authors have never come up against a dried juice filter. And it’s also the worst caliber of propaganda. You know how it is... The most militant anti-smokers are former smokers and the most adamant propagators of healthy eating are formerly obese eating machines who, one day, saw their mistake and now have the feeling (in fact it’s a mission) that they have to save the world. Which they do by talking to one American after another and, through Jehovah's Witness type interrogation, they try to convince people to take the path leading toward vegetables on your plate. That’s right, instead of faith, Jesus Christ and eternal salvation, he we hear words praising healthy food, long life and health, whereby creating the impression of spreading awareness. Unfortunately, the result does more harm than good for healthy lifestyle, working only on an uninventive “tabloid press" level of if you eat like a pig, you might die early, oink, oink, oink!
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