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William Baggett | ... |
Himself - Lawyer
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Charlie Cray | ... |
Himself - Greenpeace
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Daniel B. Gold | ... |
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Patrick 'Paddy O'Furniture' Hayes | ... |
Himself - Carpenter
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Florence Helfand | ... |
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Judith Helfand | ... |
Herself
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Ted Helfand | ... |
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Rick Hind | ... |
Himself - Greenpeace
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George Lucier | ... |
Himself - Former Director of NIH
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Ampelio Magro | ... |
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Cesare Maltoni | ... |
Himself
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Gerry Markowitz | ... |
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Jerry Mehan | ... |
Himself - Carpenter
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Ersillia Menadeo | ... |
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Diane Prince | ... |
Herself - Cancer Victim
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The hazards of bio-accumulation, pollution, and the makeup of what we commonly hope are benign plastics are tackled in this documentary.
This documentary is fairly well done. It tells an interesting story about a product many of us are relatively familiar with. The basic techniques were adequate and I had little qualms with the overall product.
I guess if there was a problem with the movie was the overall message. Don't get me wrong, I can totally buy that there may be some harmful materials in vinyl, I am just not sure I found a reasonable solution within the film. It seems to me that sometimes addressing a problem is only a first step and this movie did little other than to wag its finger for 90 minutes.
Finally, while I can understand that there may be some repercussions from vinyl use, I am not sure if I totally buy every lurid detail I was fed. Afterall, the movie started out with a woman looking for a problem... and found one