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Dopesick (1000) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1000 · 492 mins · English
- Directed by
- Barry Levinson, Michael Cuesta
- Starring
- Michael Stuhlbarg, Will Poulter, Michael Keaton, Peter Sarsgaard, Rosario Dawson, Kaitlyn Dever
A true‑crime portrait of America’s opioid crisis, tracing how a single pharmaceutical company’s deceptive practices sparked the nation’s deadliest drug epidemic. It moves from a struggling mining town in Virginia to the corridors of the DEA, and into the lavish world of “one‑percenter” Big Pharma in Manhattan, revealing the human toll and corporate greed behind the addiction wave.
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