ADDicted (2017)
43KADDicted: Directed by Dan Jenski. With Kathleen Quinlan, Gil Bellows, Luke Guldan, Lauren Sweetser. Like most college kids, Drew’s life is full of chaos. His Adderall is his life line. When he gets suspended from football, his dependency to the drug increases. What will it take for Drew to find inner happiness without a pill bottle?
“Because it not entirely an american issue, when talking about use and abuse of class 1 and class 2 prescripted medicine, its the same part of the game here in norway, but at another scale though, and the rest of the world strives like h..l to counteract these issues.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eback to the film, it points at two issues, abuse and expectations on youth, it has a permissive side, and it has a lawbreaking aspect. the actors a doing their best on a tv-movie budget and falls through due to bad and incoherent script and direction. there are loads of surprises, which we welcome in a plot, but they swim very fast around them, and never scubadives into the real issues.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003ebut i dare to give this socio-humanethic drama an 8 , it has some harshness of real life to it, all except from poverty, this is a film on behalf of the upperclasses. a recommend from the grumpy old man”