Dirty tricks, financial threats and media manipulation. The food giant Dole will do anything to prevent Swedish journalist Frederik Gertten's revealing film 'Bananas!' from being shown at the Los Angeles Film Festival. The film is a fraud, says Dole, and soon after, the American media are repeating the same thing - even if nobody has even seen the film yet! But the Swedish journalist and director insists on defending his premiere, his film, his reputation and not least his freedom of speech to tell the rest of the world how the multinational company for many years has exposed its employees to harmful pesticides. So when Dole's threatening letters start to pop up, Frederik Gertten secretly starts to film and document the intense David vs. Goliath confrontation, which arises between the company's efforts to defend its image and his own fight to defend freedom of speech. A stubborn struggle against all odds, which has now become a new film: 'Big Boys Gone Bananas!'. A journalistic thriller about having the courage to criticise those larger than yourself - and which shows that a counter-attack is sometimes the best line of defence.
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