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Can anyone recommend a movie about heroin or opiate/opioid addiction?

OpialiciouslyMe said:
I watched it and I didn't find it that disturbing. If you are a hardcore addict that shoots up you'll have experienced all that at least once. The only scene that really disturbed me was the one with the two girls towards the end. Being vague so not to spoiler too much.
The rest is your run of the mill "junkie" life really.
Christiane F is much more realistic IMO and it's an actual real story and since it's teenagers it's even worse. There is a very realistic scene of withdrawals.
The mum in Requiem For A Dream is a heartbreaking character for sure.
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Christians F is a great movie. I guess I forgot to mention that one. As for Requiem For A Dream, it's the ass-to-ass dildo scene and the shock therapy scene of the mother that I found hard to shake. Just seeing the mom lose grip of her sanity when all she wanted was a better connection with her son was definitely heartbreaking indeed. But yeah, for the record I never use needles. I hear it's much harder to turn your life around once you take that route and I need to get sober eventually.
 
prince_igor said:
buffalo soldiers

from wikipedia

Plot​

In 1989, U.S. Army Supply Specialist Ray Elwood is a disillusioned soldier stationed in Stuttgart, West Germany. With much spare time, he participates in black marketeering and cooking heroin for some Military Police (MPs) led by the menacing Sergeant Saad. His friendly commanding officer, Colonel Berman, thinks of Elwood as a close friend and has no idea he's stealing company supplies and having an affair with his wife. However, Elwood's uneventful existence changes when a new First Sergeant (“Top”), Robert E. Lee, joins the supply company. Lee is both strict and intimidating, quickly determining that Elwood and his squad are engaged in graft.

A tank crew, under the influence of the heroin that Elwood cooked for the MPs, unintentionally kill two soldiers in charge of a weapons convoy by crashing through a gas station. Elwood stumbles across the weapons and steals them, hiding them in an abandoned missile base. When confronted by Lee, Elwood's attempt at bribery backfires; Lee subsequently revokes Elwood's privileges, destroys his property, and orders a new, inexperienced and by the book soldier, PFC Knoll, to bunk in his room. To get back at Lee, Elwood begins a sexual relationship with his daughter, Robyn. The Top retaliates by making Elwood destroy his beloved Mercedes-Benz during a weapons exercise. Lee also boobytraps a locker that is used to hide heroin with a grenade that kills Stoney, one of Elwood's friends.

Elwood sells the stolen weapons to a Turkish gangster, accepting a large amount of raw opium as payment. However, to save Knoll from being killed by Saad in a fight, Elwood is forced to make the MP sergeant a business partner in cooking the opium. In order to get the weapons out of the missile base and collect the drugs, Elwood sells out Berman so another regiment can easily capture their positions during a mobilization exercise. Later the colonel reluctantly tells Elwood he has been dismissed from command but this has given him time to reflect — he'll leave the Army and buy a vineyard in California.

On 9 November, the night the Berlin Wall comes down, Elwood sneaks to the base swimming pool to meet Robyn while the opium is being cooked by his squad and the MPs. Knoll and Lee arrive. It's then Elwood discovers Knoll is actually an undercover 2nd Lieutenant from the Inspector General's Office. While Knoll escorts Robyn away, she tells him her father intends to kill Elwood, something Knoll – as a professional officer – cannot allow. Meanwhile Saad, intoxicated by opium fumes, provokes a shootout with commandos sent to arrest everyone in the basement drugs lab. Upstairs, just as Knoll prevents Lee at gunpoint from pushing Elwood out of a top-floor window, the building explodes from a gas leak caused by gunfire. Elwood and Lee are blown out of the building by impact. Elwood strangles Lee with his handcuffs and lands on him, surviving the fall.

In the aftermath, the Army posthumously awards Lee a Silver Star, and also decorate Elwood, who is transferred to Hawaii. He tells his new superior officer, who is just as dull-witted as Berman, that Robyn remains his girlfriend and she will be visiting soon. The film ends with Elwood submitting a requisition order for more excessive supplies.
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Never seen that one.
 
'6 Balloons'.

All the action happens in one night and it's based on a real experience that happened with one of the producer's brothers.
It's got Dave Franco in the main role (that of the junkie brother). You may know this guy from comedies and he does a surprisingly good acting job in his first serious role.
The story centres on the relationship between the brother and sister, from the sister's perspective, which gives it an interesting angle.
Is on Netflix, well worth the watch.
(I liked it so much I got myself a pirate dvd of it.)
 
The UltimateFixx said:
'6 Balloons'.

All the action happens in one night and it's based on a real experience that happened with one of the producer's brothers.
It's got Dave Franco in the main role (that of the junkie brother). You may know this guy from comedies and he does a surprisingly good acting job in his first serious role.
The story centres on the relationship between the brother and sister, from the sister's perspective, which gives it an interesting angle.
Is on Netflix, well worth the watch.
(I liked it so much I got myself a pirate dvd of it.)
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I've seen the trailer for that movie. Looks good and seems similar to Four Good Days.
 
Just watched Four Good Days on a free movie site. Good movie. It tackles the issue of what it's like to attempt recovery. My fiance always says I remind him of Mila Kunis. I might watch it with him too, but I worry that it might hit him close to home and make him feel down in the dumps, given his perceived similar resemblance between Mila and I on top of her portrayal of an opiate addict. Despite him being a former cocaine addict and current alcoholic/pothead, he still resents my love affair with painkillers. He always says things like "if I can quit cocaine, you can quit taking pain meds", but what he doesn't realize is that opiate/opioid addiction is an entirely different demon. It's not something you can simply decide to give up overnight and go on to live a normal life. Opiate addiction will grab you by the short hairs and refuse to let go. Like a toxic relationship, it won't let go of you despite deciding for yourself that enough is enough. It's not simple by any means. I've even known many well-seasoned meth addicts who fear taking opiates (and alcohol for that matter) due to the nasty withdrawals and notorious relapse rate. Most drugs have a 40%-60% relapse rate. Opiates/opioids have an over 90% relapse rate.
 
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lovemissile66 said:
Basquiat, based on the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. Benicio Del Toro is in it and so freaking young! And David Bowie plays Andy Warhol:) Came out in '96.
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Don't know if I mentioned that one, but I have that movie. Good one about a lesser-known, heroin addicted artist.
 
FunctionalJnkieGrl said:
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I wanna watch it online for free if I can find it. It hasn't been available on Redbox that I know of.
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VPN, maybe?

Rekon', just go through the tirade of searches, with 'free' in search engine - hopefully you get a result, as production is probably dated now & uploads are more easily accessible, because it wasn't 'major production', in the context of big-whig productions. 😊
 
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