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• 2021

• Drama

• 15

Summary

Drama about America's struggle with opioid addiction, starring Michael Keaton and Will Poulter. Richard Sackler launches a powerful new painkiller, a DEA agent learns of black market pills and federal prosecutors open a case into OxyContin. With Peter Sarsgaard, Michael Stuhlbarg, Rosario Dawson and John Hoogennakker

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Jack Seale

“The time has come to redefine the nature of pain…”. America’s opiod crisis addiction is tackled with some severity by a fact-based drama first shown on Disney+ in 2021. In the mid-1990s, a drug company embarks on a grand new project: to corner the pain-relief market in Kentucky and nearby states by convincing doctors that its new medication does the impossible — relieve pain without causing addiction – which turns out to be untrue.

Aside from the legal implications, the series is concerned with the devastated lives of ordinary people, and that’s where the strongest performances are: Kaitlyn Dever as an injured miner, Michael Keaton as her doctor.

It’s dour but compelling: the quest for justice grips, but the sense of something rotten in US society will haunt you.

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8.6/10

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rolenameDr Samuel FinnixMichael KeatonDiane MallumMare WinninghamBridget MeyerRosario DawsonRick MountcastlePeter SarsgaardJohn BrownleeJake McDormanKathe SacklerJaime Ray NewmanGrace PellCleopatra Coleman

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rolenameDirectorBarry Levinson

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