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The Big Fix is a american film of genre Documentary directed by Rebecca Harrell Tickell with Josh Tickell

The Big Fix (2011)

The Big Fix
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Length 1h30
OriginUSA
Rating76% 3.817613.817613.817613.817613.81761

The Big Fix is a 2012 documentary film about two filmmakers, Josh and Rebecca Tickell, as they travel along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico meeting the residents whose lives were changed by the 2010 BP Oil Spill. The film argues that BP has utilized the oil dispersant Corexit in the Gulf to create the illusion that the Louisiana beaches are safe and the water (and seafood) uncontaminated.

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Josh Tickell
Rebecca Harrell Tickell
Peter Fonda
Amy Smart
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