King Corn (film)

King Corn is a documentary film released in October 2007 that follows college friends Ian Cheney and Curtis Ellis directed by Aaron Woolf as they move from Boston to Greene, Iowa to grow and farm an acre of corn. In the process, Cheney and Ellis examine the role that the increasing production of corn has had for American society, spotlighting the role of government subsidies in encouraging the huge amount of corn grown.

King Corn received generally positive reviews and was awarded a Peabody Award. The film earned a review score of 70 from the review aggregate site Metacritic based onreviews. Rotten Tomatoes awarded the film a score of 95 based onreviews.

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