American Relapse

Name: American Relapse
Genre: Documentary
Released: March 29, 2019
Duration: 105 min
Rating: 69
Cast: Allie Severino, Frankie Holmes

2019

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Gravitas Ventures | Release Date: March 29, 2019

Starring: Allie Severino, Frankie Holmes

Summary: AMERICAN RELAPSE is a feature documentary about the ripped-from-the-headlines heroin epidemic and the corrupt underground rehab industry that has sprung up around it in Southern Florida.

Director: Adam Linkenhelt and Pat McGee

Genre(s): Documentary

Runtime: 105 min

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Gary Goldstein

Mar 28, 2019

Gripping...It’s a tough, distressing film, yet in the measured hands of directors Pat McGee and Adam Linkenhelt, its emotional and humanistic qualities transcend the kind of exploitive defaults that could have made this a punishing, eye-popping horror show. Read full review

Movie Nation Roger Moore

Mar 28, 2019

Eye-opening and damning, American Relapse is a blunt force look at the “cycle” of opioid addiction and the ways this American epidemic has been monetized by those with an eye towards making a buck out of any bad thing that happens. Read full review

John DeFore

Mar 29, 2019

Whatever its shortcomings, American Relapse deepens our sense of the catastrophe caused by opioid overprescription and over-availability. Read full review

Nick Schager

Mar 29, 2019

The aesthetic devices used by the directors to embellish their material — including educational and archival videos, split-screens, slow-motion, time-lapse footage, and lingering close-ups of needles and money — are a bit too self-consciously stylish for their own good. Nonetheless, their film captures the recurring nightmare of substance abuse. Read full review

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