Best known for his role of Fez (an acronym for ‘Foreign Exchange Student’) on “That 70’s Show,” Wilmer Valderrama takes on his first major mainstream dramatic effort in Fast Food Nation, Richard Linklater’s adaptation of Eric Schlosser’s best-selling journalistic investigation into the multi-faceted impact and implications of the fast food corporation on global society, economy, and culture. Adapted into a narrative screenplay by Linklater and Schlosser, the film follows three simultaneous plotlines that help examine fast food from a variety of perspectives. Valderrama is cast in the role of Raul, an illegal immigrant who crosses the U.S./Mexico border in hopes of finding a better life for himself and his girlfriend Sylvia (Catalina Sandino Moreno -- Maria Full of Grace), and finds himself among the disposable immigrant labor force manning a meat processing plant in Colorado. Valderrama’s storyline is easily the most effective (and disturbing) of the three, and he demonstrates he has serious dramatic acting ability.
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