“Pain Hustlers,” which just premiered at Toronto International Film Festival, is merely the latest—and maybe the laziest—attempt to turn Big Pharma into juicy film fodder.
), but in a streaming landscape already saturated with takedowns of Big Pharma and its pill-popping perfidy, it’s a generic version of far more powerful originals.fictionalizes the saga of Insys Therapeutics, who produced and sold a fast-acting fentanyl spray dubbed Subsys that was approved to treat cancer patients’ extreme pain. In Yates and screenwriter Wells Tower’s retelling, that corrupt firm is Zanna Therapeutics and their wonder drug is Lonafen, developed by billionaire Dr.
This stroke of luck couldn’t come at a better time for Liza, whose adolescent daughter Phoebe has just been suspended from school for igniting a forest fire with illegal fireworks, and whose sister wants them both to clean up their act and move out of her garage. Desperate, Liza takes Pete up on his proposal, and her sales background and go-getter attitude so impress him that he falsifies her resumé and introduces her to Dr.
She does this by heeding Pete’s advice and using “speaker programs” to unsubtly bribe doctors with cash, vacations, women, and party drugs so that they’ll write scripts for their medications. Liza knows that this is shady butroutinely notes that she believes Lonafen is a legitimate and vital remedy for millions, and, consequently, the ends justify the means.
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