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- Engaging and enraging but also, alas, consistently superficial, it’s a hot-button work whose easily digested nonfiction methods will appeal to mainstream documentary audiences, even if they also leave viewers hungry for greater substance.
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Jan 21, 2016 · Directed by Chris Bell, Josh Alexander, Greg Young. Documentary. PG-13. 1h 26m. By Neil Genzlinger. Jan. 21, 2016. Even before a “do as I say, not as I do” twist costs it all credibility, “...
- Chris Bell, Josh Alexander, Greg Young
- Neil Genzlinger
- 86 min
Jan 20, 2016 · By Nick Schager. Courtesy of Tribeca Film Festival. Having wrestled with steroids in his 2008 documentary “Bigger, Stronger, Faster*,” Chris Bell expands his purview to tackle America’s ...
Jan 22, 2016 · By Martin Tsai. Jan. 21, 2016 6:10 PM PT. The documentary “Prescription Thugs” ponders the cultural forces feeding the habit of prescription drug abuse, a phenomenon of increasing concern in ...
Jan 27, 2016 · And yet, according to the new documentary Prescription Thugs, this national addiction isn't just medical—it's cultural. Part journalistic investigation, part personal confession, the latest film from documentarian Chris Bell examines a national problem through his own family's story.
Jan 22, 2016 · Documentary. In this follow-up to his film BIGGER FASTER STRONGER, director Chris Bell turns his camera on the abuse of prescription drugs and, ultimately, himself. As Bell learns more about Big Pharma, an industry he had been brought up to trust, he falls down his own hole of addiction. Directors.
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- Chris Bell, Josh Alexander, Greg Young
- 2016-01-22
Neil Genzlinger New York Times. TOP CRITIC. 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...
Jan 20, 2016 · Film Review: ‘Prescription Thugs’. Nick Schager. · Writer. January 20, 2016. Having wrestled with steroids in his 2008 documentary “Bigger, Stronger, Faster*,” Chris Bell expands his purview to...
