What do you get when you cross "Super Size Me" with the "The Omnivore's Dilemma"?

King Corn, or at least that's the type of hybrid success that the documentary's makers are hoping for as the film hits the big screen this week.

King Corn is about two friends, one acre of corn, and the subsidized crop that drives our fast-food nation.

In the film, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis, best friends from college on the east coast, move to the heartland to learn where their food comes from. With the help of friendly neighbors, genetically modified seeds, and powerful herbicides, they plant and grow a bumper crop of America’s most-productive, most-subsidized grain on one acre of Iowa soil. But when they try to follow their pile of corn into the food system, what they find raises troubling questions about how we eat—and how we farm.

The small-budget, independent film has received much favorable press including a write-up in today's New York Times dining section which is not a bad way to start.

The big question that many movie-goers will be asking themselves is whether it's ok to eat popcorn and drink corn-sweetened soda while watching the film.

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