Watch The Botany of Desire (2009) Free Movie Online

Quality: HD
Genre: Documentary
Languages: English
Director: Michael Schwarz, Edward Grayco director
Starring: Frances McDormand, Michael Pollan

Writers: N/A
Release date: 28 Oct 2009
Countries: USA
Runtime: 120 min
7.6 / 10

Michael Pollan, a professor of journalism and a student of food, presents the history of four plants, each of which found a way to make itself essential to humans, thus ensuring widespread propagation. Apples, for sweetness; tulips, for beauty; marijuana, for pleasure; and, potatoes, for sustenance. Each has a story of discovery and adaptation; each has a symbiotic relationship with human civilization. The film tells these stories and examines these relationships.