Prescription Thugs

Name: Prescription Thugs
Genre: Documentary
Released: January 22, 2016
Duration: 86 min
Rating: 45

2016

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Samuel Goldwyn Films | Release Date: January 22, 2016 | Not Rated

Summary: Prescription Thugs is an expose of Big Pharma, its marketing practices and their impact on the staggering level of addiction to prescription drugs in North America.

Director: Chris Bell and Greg Young and Josh Alexander

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 86 min

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Sheri Linden

Nov 4, 2015

Thugs offers a damning summary of the FDA approval process as a closed loop in which one hand washes the other and crucial data can remain hidden. Read full review

Martin Tsai

Jan 21, 2016

Despite [Bell's] casual aura, the filmmaker is eloquent and thoughtful. He argues that Big Pharma merely services consumer demand for quick fixes with "magic" pills, bringing his cautionary tale full circle. Read full review

Chris Packham

Jan 19, 2016

It's unusually confessional and often moving, but Bell's film is unsatisfying as a piece of documentary journalism. Read full review

Nick Schager

Jan 20, 2016

Engaging and enraging but also, alas, consistently superficial. Read full review

Neil Genzlinger

Jan 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. Read full review

Clayton Dillard

Jan 18, 2016

It's symptomatic of the one-man-show form of polemical exposé that's come to dominate, and deteriorate, documentary practice. Read full review

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