A Place at the Table (2013)
84%RT Audience Score: 73%
Awards & Nominations: 1 win & 2 nominations
A Place at the Table is a well-reported documentary that raises important questions about the state of hunger in America culture
A Place at the Table” is a documentary that will make you want to throw your popcorn at the screen. It’s infuriating to learn that there are millions of people in America who go to bed hungry every night, while we have more than enough food to go around. The film doesn’t shy away from the complex political issues behind hunger, and it presents a shameful truth that should leave viewers dismayed and angry. One of the saddest stories belongs to a single mother who got a full-time job and is now off welfare, but still can’t afford to feed her children on her salary. This is a must-see movie that will make you mad, or at least it should.
Production Company(ies)
Distributor
Magnolia Pictures
Release Type
Theatrical
Filming Location(s)
MPAA / Certificate
Rated PG for thematic elements and brief mild language
Year of Release
2013
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Color:Color
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Sound mix:Dolby
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Aspect ratio:NA
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Runtime:1h 24m
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Language(s):
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Country of origin:United States
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Release date:Release Date (Theaters): Mar 1, 2013 Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jun 25, 2013
Genre(s)
Documentary
Keyword(s)
A Place at the Table, documentary, hunger, poverty, PG, Kristi Jacobson, Lori Silverbush, Julie Goldman, Ryan Harrington, Magnolia Pictures, $230.5K, reviewed by Gretchen Sisson, John Anderson, Rick Groen, Linda Barnard, Lisa Kennedy, Walter V Addiego, Kelly Jane Torrance, Sean Burns, Kam Williams, Robert Roten, Philip Martin, Rick Kisonak, starring N/A, directed by Kristi Jacobson, Lori Silverbush, written by N/A, produced by Julie Goldman, Ryan Harrington, Kristi Jacobson, Lori Silverbush, MPAA rating PG, food insecurity, nutrition, America culture, poverty, processed food, fresh fruits, vegetables, welfare, children, job, salary, hunger crisis, food banks, food stamps, government policies, social justice, documentary film
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Lori Silverbush – Director
Julie Goldman – Producer
Ryan Harrington – Producer
Kristi Jacobson – Producer
Lori Silverbush – Producer
Director(s)
Kristi Jacobson, Lori Silverbush
Writer(s)
NA
Producer(s)
Julie Goldman, Ryan Harrington, Kristi Jacobson, Lori Silverbush
Film Festivals
Awards & Nominations
1 win & 2 nominations
Academy Awards
All Critics (61) | Top Critics (27) | Fresh (55) | Rotten (6)
While the film stays true to the individual accounts, it doesn’t shy away from the complex political issues behind hunger that affect all of us.
January 11, 2021
Gretchen Sisson
Bitch Media
TOP CRITIC
[A] revelatory new documentary about hunger in the United States.
November 17, 2015
John Anderson
America Magazine
TOP CRITIC
Hunger in America is not about a shortage of food but an abundance of poverty. This is where the spiral spins downward.
April 5, 2013 | Rating: 3/4
Rick Groen
Globe and Mail
TOP CRITIC
A shocking indictment of how people are starving in the land of plenty …
April 4, 2013 | Rating: 3/4
Linda Barnard
Toronto Star
TOP CRITIC
You don’t have to be a fan of info-graphics in social-justice docs to be troubled by one showing that the price of processed food has decreased in almost exact proportion to the rise in cost of fresh fruits and vegetables.
March 8, 2013 | Rating: 3/4
Lisa Kennedy
Denver Post
TOP CRITIC
“A Place at the Table” presents a shameful truth that should leave viewers dismayed and angry: This nation has more than enough food for all its people, yet millions of them are hungry.
March 7, 2013 | Rating: 3/4
Walter V. Addiego
San Francisco Chronicle
TOP CRITIC
That’s one of the infuriating things about this documentary. It gives all of the information needed to pull at our heartstrings, but almost none needed to assess the problem clearly and think through possible solutions.
December 14, 2018 | Rating: 1/4
Kelly Jane Torrance
Washington Examiner
An informative and often infuriating picture that deserves to be seen.
April 28, 2015
Sean Burns
Philadelphia Weekly
Tale of two Americas documentary highlights the plight of the 50 million poor folks who go to sleep hungry every night.
January 26, 2014 | Rating: 4/4
Kam Williams
Baret News
The saddest story belongs to a single mother who got a full time job and is now off welfare, but can’t afford to feed her children on her salary. This is one of those movies that will make you mad, or at least it should.
December 29, 2013 | Rating: B+
Robert Roten
Laramie Movie Scope
presents us with the counter-intuitive idea that while Americans may be among the world’s most obese people … there is a surprisingly large segment of our population – nearly 50 million people – who are “food insecure”
August 16, 2013 | Rating: 87/100
Philip Martin
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
A must-see dispatch from the front lines of this struggle packed with sobering statistics and infuriating facts – among them, that one in four American children is chronically hungry.
May 22, 2013
Rick Kisonak
Seven Days…
Plot
A documentary that investigates incidents of hunger experienced by millions of Americans, and proposed solutions to the problem.
Trivia
Goofs / Tidbits
Nothing to add here about A Place at the Table.
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