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- 2019
- Gravitas Ventures
- 1 h 45 m
- 2019
- Gravitas Ventures
- 1 h 45 m
Summary AMERICAN RELAPSE is a feature documentary about the ripped-from-the-headlines heroin epidemic and the corrupt underground rehab industry that has sprung up around it in Southern Florida.
Directed By: Pat McGee
- 2019
- Gravitas Ventures
- 1 h 45 m
- 2019
- Gravitas Ventures
- 1 h 45 m
American Relapse
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Summary AMERICAN RELAPSE is a feature documentary about the ripped-from-the-headlines heroin epidemic and the corrupt underground rehab industry that has sprung up around it in Southern Florida.
Directed By: Pat McGee
Where to Watch
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Based on 4 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 4 Critic Reviews
69
75% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
25% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
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Gripping...It’s a tough, distressing film, yet in the measured hands of directors Pat McGee and Adam Linkenhelt, its emotional and humanistic qualities transcend the kind of exploitive defaults that could have made this a punishing, eye-popping horror show.
Eye-opening and damning, American Relapse is a blunt force look at the “cycle” of opioid addiction and the ways this American epidemic has been monetized by those with an eye towards making a buck out of any bad thing that happens.
Whatever its shortcomings, American Relapse deepens our sense of the catastrophe caused by opioid overprescription and over-availability.
The aesthetic devices used by the directors to embellish their material — including educational and archival videos, split-screens, slow-motion, time-lapse footage, and lingering close-ups of needles and money — are a bit too self-consciously stylish for their own good. Nonetheless, their film captures the recurring nightmare of substance abuse.
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Production Company
Pat McGee Pictures
Release Date Mar 29, 2019
Duration 1 h 45 m
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Website
http://www.AmericanRelapse.com/