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Prescription Thugs
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In this documentary, director Chris Bell turns his camera on the abuse of prescription drugs and, ultimately, himself. It's his hard hitting and thought provoking expose of Big Pharma, its marketing practices and their impact on the staggering level of addiction to prescription drugs in North America.
In this documentary, director Chris Bell turns his camera on the abuse of prescription drugs and, ultimately, himself. It's his hard hitting and thought provoking expose of Big Pharma, its marketing practices and their impact on the staggering level of addiction to prescription drugs in North America.
Actors:
Chris Leben,
Jeff Hatch,
Matthew Wiese
Chris Leben
21 July 1980, Portland, Oregon, USA
Jeff Hatch
Matthew Wiese
22 September 1971, New York City, New York, USA
Genre:
Documentary
Director:
Josh Alexander ,
Chris Bell
Josh Alexander
Chris Bell
Country:
United States
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January 18, 2016
It's symptomatic of the one-man-show form of polemical exposé that's come to dominate, and deteriorate, documentary practice.
January 21, 2016
Even before a "do as I say, not as I do" twist costs it all credibility, "Prescription Thugs" is a not very good documentary about a very important subject.
February 06, 2017
If you want to see a documentary about the director's life and how drugs affected him personally, then go see this film. If you're looking for something about what society can do to combat a problem that has turned into an epidemic, look the other way.
January 19, 2016
An indictment of prescription drug overuse is limited by the relative absence of graphics and humor.
February 02, 2016
You'll be hooked from the get-go. But like that elusive high, you're left wanting more.
January 21, 2016
Despite his casual aura, the filmmaker is eloquent and thoughtful.
January 19, 2016
It's unusually confessional and often moving, but Bell's film is unsatisfying as a piece of documentary journalism.
January 22, 2016
Immensely relatable and genuine as the face of the film, [Chris] Bell sheds tremendous light on America's dependence on prescription medication.
January 20, 2016
Engaging and enraging but also, alas, consistently superficial, it's a hot-button work whose easily digested nonfiction methods will appeal to mainstream documentary audiences, even if they also leave viewers hungry for greater substance.
January 22, 2016
Bell takes it personally as well as publicly with the tragic death of his own brother. And what exactly is going down with the deadly prescription drug epidemic, and pharmaceutical corporations in league with doctors and drugstores raking in billions.
December 10, 2015
An accessible look at an important topic: the medicine that ails us.