American Pain

Name: American Pain
Genre: History, Sport, Documentary
Released: June 8, 2023
Duration: 106 min
Rating: 72
Cast: Mia Rivera

2023

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Cable News Network (CNN) | Release Date (Streaming): June 8, 2023 | Not Rated

Starring: Mia Rivera

Summary: American Pain traces the rise and fall of twin bodybuilders from Florida who become the kingpins of the largest oxycodone trafficking network in US history.

Director: Darren Foster

Genre(s): History, Sport, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 106 min

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The Playlist Chris Barsanti

Jun 23, 2023

Foster tackles this material in the high-velocity fashion common to many stranger-than-fiction documentaries about people gleefully living outside the law. There is a lot for him to work with, one vivid and outlandish anecdote spilling into another. Read full review

John DeFore

Jun 23, 2023

Foster’s research and storytelling are very satisfying, even if the results aren’t. Many of those involved wound up serving prison time, but of course it was far too short, too gentle and not served in the same cells as the Big Pharma execs who made this horror story possible. Read full review

Dennis Harvey

Jun 23, 2023

It’s hard to think of a prior chronicle quite so luridly indicting as American Pain. Read full review

John Anderson

Jun 23, 2023

Being appalled by people who get their comeuppance is always entertaining, and American Pain fills that bill, though the misbehavior Mr. Foster chronicles is so shameless that viewers might start to lose their bearings. Read full review

Noel Murray

Jun 26, 2023

The cold irony that Foster provocatively presents is that if the idiocy surrounding pain clinics hadn’t become too gross and widespread for the authorities to ignore, people like the Georges might still be getting rich off of addiction today. Read full review

Natalia Winkelman

Jun 22, 2023

The utility of an energetic character study of depraved opioid kingpins is questionable. But the documentary unspools with enough style and spark to engage. Read full review

Ronda Racha Penrice

Jun 23, 2023

Ultimately, American Pain perpetuates the media’s dangerous pattern of humanizing white criminals under the guise of moral disdain. Read full review

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