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The Botany of Desire

  • Documentary

116 minutes

2009-10-28

6.4

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Featuring Michael Pollan and based on his best-selling book, this special takes viewers on an exploration of the human relationship with the plant world — seen from the plants' point of view. Narrated by Frances McDormand, the program shows how four familiar species — the apple, the tulip, marijuana and the potato — evolved to satisfy our yearnings for sweetness, beauty, intoxication.

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Frances McDormand

Frances McDormand

Narrator (voice)
Michael Pollan

Michael Pollan

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