Synopsis
Using personal stories, this powerful documentary illuminates the plight of the 49 million Americans struggling with food insecurity. A single mother, a small-town policeman and a farmer are among those for whom putting food on the table is a daily battle.
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Cast
- Jeff BridgesSelf
- Tom ColicchioSelf
- Mariana ChiltonSelf
- Ken CookSelf
- Barbie IzquierdoSelf
- Marion NestleSelf
- Raj PatelSelf
- Janet PoppendieckSelf
- Jim McGovernSelf
Recommendations
- 100
New York Daily News
As important and eye-opening a documentary as you’ll see this year, A Place at the Table makes it impossible to think of hunger as merely another symptom of a shredded social safety net. - 75
Slant Magazine
More difficult to convey are the web of moral and political issues that surround the hunger crisis, and A Place at the Table proves its worth most by how it treats this wider set of problems. - 75
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
It’s a beautifully shot and reasonably balanced film, but one that struggles to find a hopeful note to end on. - 75
Chicago Sun-Times
A good documentary that is good for you. The bad news is that broccoli and bananas are neither available nor affordable for many Americans. That's the message of Kristi Jacobson and Lori Silverbush's A Place at the Table, a necessary report on the national issue of hunger. - 70
Variety
A useful, engaging and enraging movie that will enlist supporters for its cause. - 70
Village Voice
A Place at the Table attempts to document its subject with the progressive angle and emotional effect of such docs as "An Inconvenient Truth" and "Waiting for Superman." - 70
Wall Street Journal
In addition to the dismaying facts and figures is a fuller sense of what hunger can look like, and feel like, among the millions of Americans classified as "food-insecure" — those who may not know, for themselves or their children, where the next meal will come from. - 50
The A.V. Club
It makes a persuasive argument — which it makes easier by not allowing any counterargument — but it’s unpersuasive as a piece of filmmaking. In laying out its case, it’s manipulative and dull by turns.