Lunch Line

Reframes the school lunch debate through an examination of the programs surprising past uncertain present and possible future Six kids from one of the toughest neighborhoods in Chicago set out to fix school lunch and end up at the White House Their unlikely journey parallels the dramatic transformation of school lunch from a weak patchwork of local antihunger efforts to a robust national feeding program The film tracks key moments in school food and child nutrition from 1940s 1960s and 1980s to the present revealing political twists surprising alliances and more common ground than people realize