Off Label

Name: Off Label
Genre: Drama, History, Documentary, News
Released: August 9, 2013
Duration: 80 min
Rating: 44
Cast: Andrew Duffy, Jordan Rieke, Jusef Anthony, Mary Weiss, Michael Oldani

2013

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Oscilloscope Pictures | Release Date: August 9, 2013 | Not Rated

Starring: Andrew Duffy, Jordan Rieke, Jusef Anthony, Mary Weiss, Michael Oldani, Paul Clough, Paula Yarr, Robert Helms

Summary: Doctors today are liberally writing prescriptions for psychotropic drugs such as Adderall, Ambien, Zoloft, and Prozac (to name a very few). Often these drugs are combined in polypharmacy cocktails or are given out for unapproved or untested indications, leading to abuse, dangerous side effects, and heavy dependence. Off Label examines ourDoctors today are liberally writing prescriptions for psychotropic drugs such as Adderall, Ambien, Zoloft, and Prozac (to name a very few). Often these drugs are combined in polypharmacy cocktails or are given out for unapproved or untested indications, leading to abuse, dangerous side effects, and heavy dependence. Off Label examines our runaway pharma-culture by weaving together the stories of drug-testing subjects, Big Pharma representatives, and many others touched by the rampant use of pharmaceuticals. Together, they create a poetic, sometimes amusing and frequently heartbreaking emotional road trip through an overmedicated, misdiagnosed, and drug-addled America. [Oscilloscope Pictures]… Expand

Director: Donal Mosher and Michael Palmieri

Genre(s): Drama, History, Documentary, News

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 80 min

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Sheri Linden

Aug 7, 2013

With its focus on intimate detail, Off Label is not a conventional "issue film" reaching for conclusions. Palmieri and Mosher have taken on a huge and urgent topic, and their work's impact rests on their refusal to tell viewers how to feel. Read full review

Aaron Hillis

Aug 6, 2013

Don't discount October Country filmmakers Michael Palmieri and Donal Mosher's tragicomically beautiful art-doc, which sensitively favors unflinching testimonials and visually impressionistic observations over journalistic activism. Read full review

Bill Weber

Aug 5, 2013

Sincerely angry about the crisis in polypharmacy, this narrative suffers from a documentarian form of A.D.D. Read full review

John DeFore

Aug 8, 2013

Though it lacks the specific argumentative point of view that might have carried it into the mainstream, its sympathetic approach to subjects offers a compelling human perspective on questions that get too little attention in debates about health care. Read full review

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

Aug 7, 2013

Hypocrisy aside, Off Label’s biggest problem is that, for a movie that features a lot of people talking about a lot of things, it doesn’t have a lot to say; its scatterbrained, switching-between-browser-tabs structure guarantees that no idea gets developed very far. Read full review

Nicolas Rapold

Aug 8, 2013

The film’s stacked stories naggingly lack a cohesive train of thought beyond the often harmful pervasiveness of pharmaceuticals in American society. Read full review

Mike D'Angelo

Aug 8, 2013

Each scene in Off Label, viewed in isolation, seems perfectly fine, even fairly interesting. It’s how all of those scenes fit together—or, rather, how they absolutely don’t—that creates the overall sense of grotesque deformity. Read full review

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